ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,541, issued on April 21, was assigned to EISAI R&D MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"PPARg modulators and methods of use" was invented by Sudeep Prajapati (Somerville, Mass.), Hyelee Lee (Billerica, Mass.), Stephanos Ioannidis (Natick, Mass.), Kiyoyuki Omoto (Bedford, Mass.), Alan Rolfe (Medford, Mass.), Xiang Liu (Winchester, Mass.), Megan Carty (Boston), Paul Dransfield (Arlington, Mass.) and Andrew Cook (Stow, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are novel compounds of Formula (1) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and methods of using the same."

The paten...