ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,572, issued on April 21, was assigned to Kumquat Biosciences Inc. (San Diego).

"Substituted heterocycles and uses thereof" was invented by Pingda Ren (San Diego), Baogen Wu (San Diego), Xiaoming Li (San Diego), Xiaohui He (San Diego) and Liansheng Li (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and methods of using the same. The compounds and methods have a range of utilities as therapeutics, diagnostics, and research tools. In particular, the subject compositions and methods are useful for reducing signaling output of oncogenic protein."

The pate...