ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,247, issued on April 7, was assigned to Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Substituted pyrazolo piperidine carboxylic acids" was invented by Alexandros Vakalopoulos (Hilden, Germany), Marie-Pierre Collin-Kropelin (Weil am Rhein, Germany), Nuria Ortega Hernandez (Wuppertal, Germany), Andre Dieskau (Wuppertal, Germany), Melissa Boultadakis-Arapinis (Dusseldorf, Germany), Lisa Candish (Wuppertal, Germany), Timo Stellfeld (Berlin), Ilka Mathar (Dusseldorf, Germany), Lucas Hudson Hofmeister (Berlin), Peter Sandner (Wuppertal, Germany), Frank Wunder (Wuppertal, Germany), Lisa Dietz (Wuppertal, Germany), Robert Alan Webster (Berlin), Carsten Schmeck (Mulheim, Germany) and Thomas Mondritzki...