ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,822, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Incyte Corp. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Heterocyclic compounds as immunomodulators" was invented by Liangxing Wu (Wilmington, Del.), Neil Lajkiewicz (Bedford, Mass.), Chunhong He (Boothwyn, Pa.), Kaijiong Xiao (Clark, N.J.), Wenyu Zhu (Media, Pa.), Zhenwu Li (Wilmington, Del.), Chao Qi (Newark, Del.), Leah C. Konkol (Newark, Del.) and Wenqing Yao (Chadds Ford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I), methods of using the compounds as immunomodulators, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. The compounds are useful in treating, preventing or amelio...