ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,532, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ELI LILLY AND COMPANY (Indianapolis).

"Long-acting amylin receptor agonists and uses thereof" was invented by Milata Mary Abraham (Indianapolis), Daniel Anthony Briere (Morgantown, Ind.), Lili Guo (Carmel, Ind.), Samantha Grace Lyons Keyser (Carmel, Ind.), John Lee (Torrence, Calif.) and Hongchang Qu (Carmel, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of medicine. More particularly, the disclosure is in the field of treatment of diabetes, obesity and/or chronic weight management, dyslipidemia and/or NASH. The disclosure relates to compounds that agonize the ...