ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,439, issued on April 29, was assigned to Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel), Universitat de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) and Institucio Catalana de Recerca I Estudis Avancats (Barcelona, Spain).

"Inhibitors of ERK nuclear translocation" was invented by Rony Seger (Rehovot, Israel), Karen Flores (Rehovot, Israel), Xavier Barril Alonso (Barcelona, Spain) and Carlos Galdeano Cantador (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are compounds having Formula I or Formula II:wherein each dashed line independently represents a saturated or unsaturated bond; R1 and R'1 are aryl or heteroaryl as defin...