ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,788, issued on June 2, was assigned to HK INNO.N Corp. (Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea).

"Pharmaceutical composition comprising benzimidazole derivative compound" was invented by Jae Hee Cheon (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Won Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Mi Jeong Son (Busan, South Korea), I Seul Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Dongkyu Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Bong Tae Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Eun Ji Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Yong Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating colitis comprising tegoprazan, which is a benzim...