US Patent Issued to Vanderbilt University on May 6 for "Indazole compounds as mGluR4 allosteric potentiators, compositions, and methods of treating neurological dysfunction" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,521, issued on May 6, was assigned to Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Indazole compounds as mGluR4 allosteric potentiators, compositions, and methods of treating neurological dysfunction" was invented by P. Jeffrey Conn (Nashville, Tenn.), Craig W. Lindsley (Nashville, Tenn.), Andrew S. Felts (Nashville, Tenn.), Colleen M. Niswender (Nashville, Tenn.), Rory A. Capstick (Nashville, Tenn.), Paul K. Spearing (Nashville, Tenn.) and Sean R. Bollinger (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Indazole compounds which are useful as allosteric potentiators/positive allosteric modulators of the metabotropic glutamate recepto...