ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,051, issued on May 12, was assigned to Genzyme Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Sionna Therapeutics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Macrocyclic compounds, compositions, and methods of using thereof" was invented by Junkai Liao (Andover, Mass.), John E. Macor (Washington Crossing, Pa.), George Topalov (Pittsburgh), Mark Munson (Acton, Mass.), Sukanthini Thurairatnam (Dover, Mass.), Bradford Hirth (Littleton, Mass.), Zhongli Gao (Waltham, Mass.), Gregory Donald Hurlbut (Boxborough, Mass.), Andrew Good (Bideford, Great Britain), Roy Vaz (Southborough, Mass.), Jinyu Liu (Union City, Calif.), Yi Li (Weston, Mass.), Anatoly Ruvinsky (Lexington, Mass.), Michael Kothe (Medway, Mass.), David Borcherdin...