ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,212, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Shanghai) and CHINA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY (Jiangsu, China).

"Substituted pyrazolecarboxamides as sting activators" was invented by Wenhu Duan (Shanghai), Meiyu Geng (Shanghai), Huibin Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Zuoquan Xie (Shanghai), Jinpei Zhou (Jiangsu, China), Yifei Yang (Jiangsu, China), Xiyuan Wang (Shanghai), Xiaojun Yang (Jiangsu, China), Yan Zhang (Shanghai), Zhaoxue Hu (Jiangsu, China) and Jian Ding (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a heterocyclic amide compound of general formula (I), a pharmaceutic...