ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,047, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Heterocyclic spiro compounds and methods of use" was invented by Brian Alan Lanman (Woodland Hills, Calif.), Abhisek Banerjee (Bangalore, India), Margaret Chu-Moyer (Brookline, Mass.), Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Ore.), Matthew R. Kaller (Ventura, Calif.), Patricia Lopez (Woodland Hills, Calif.), Vu Van Ma (Oak Park, Calif.), Francesco Manoni (Newbury Park, Calif.), Jose M. Medina (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Alexander J. Pickrell (Westlake Village, Calif.), Nuria A. Tamayo (Newbury Park, Calif.) and Kai Zhu (Westlake Village, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...