ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,070, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Zydus Lifesciences Ltd. (Gujarat, India).

"Substituted sulfoximine derivatives" was invented by Rajiv Sharma (Ahmedabad, India) and Sameer Agarwal (Ahmedabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to novel heterocyclic compounds of general formula (I) their tautomers, stereoisomers, enantiomers, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and pharmaceutical composition. The compounds of general formula (I) belongs to the family of NOD like receptor family (NLR) protein NLRP3 modulators. The present invention thus relates to novel NLRP3 modulators and use of these novel inhibito...