ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,062, issued on March 31, was assigned to Gilead Sciences Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors" was invented by Evangelos Aktoudianakis (Redwood City, Calif.), Todd Appleby (San Francisco), Aesop Cho (Mountain View, Calif.), Zhimin Du (Belmont, Calif.), Michael Graupe (Pacifica, Calif.), Juan A. Guerrero (Concord, Calif.), Salman Y. Jabri (San Francisco), Lateshkumar Thakorlal Lad (Belmont, Calif.), Paulo A. Machicao Tello (Oakland, Calif.), Jonathan William Medley (San Mateo, Calif.), Samuel E. Metobo (Newark, Calif.), Prasenjit Kumar Mukherjee (South San Francisco, Calif.), Devan Naduthambi (San Bruno, Calif.), Gregory Notte (Redwood City, Calif.), Eric Q. Parkhill...