ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,091, issued on June 16, was assigned to CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS (CSIC) (Madrid) and OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY (Oxford, Great Britain).

"N-benzyl-alpha-aminoamides as anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) inhibitors" was invented by Agatha Bastida Codina (Madrid), Raul Benito Arenas (Madrid), Victor M. Bolanos-Garcia (Oxford, Great Britain) and Natalie Laura Curtis (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a compound of formula I which are inhibitors of anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) function of formula I, wherein the meaning for R1 and R2 is as disclose...