US Patent Issued to Vertex Pharmaceuticals on Sept. 23 for "Inhibitors of APOL1 and methods of using same" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,249, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Boston).

"Inhibitors of APOL1 and methods of using same" was invented by Jun Myun Ahn (Waltham, Mass.), Samantha Angle (Cambridge, Mass.), Michael Aaron Brodney (Newton, Mass.), Jingrong Cao (Newton, Mass.), John E. Cochran (Marshfield, Mass.), Jon H. Come (Cambridge, Mass.), Leslie A. Dakin (Framingham, Mass.), Elena Dolgikh (Boston), Brad D. Maxwell (Holliston, Mass.), Suganthini S. Nanthakumar (Newton, Mass.), Hardwin O'Dowd (Cambridge, Mass.), Jessica Howard Olsen (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), Timothy J. Senter (Arlington, Mass.), Akira Joseph Shimizu (Framingham, Mass.), Steven David Stone (Quincy, Mass.) and Ha...