ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,255, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (Little Falls, N.J.).

"Heteroaryl-substituted imidazole derivatives" was invented by Christian Lerner (Bottmingen, Switzerland), Mingming Li (Shanghai), Yongqiang Liu (Shanghai), Jianhua Wang (Shanghai), Min Wang (Shanghai), Yongguang Wang (Shanghai), Song Yang (Shanghai) and Chengang Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides novel heteroaryl-substituted imidazole derivatives having the general formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein A and R1 to R6 are as described herein:Further provided are pharmaceutical compositio...