ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,600, issued on June 30, was assigned to Kumquat Biosciences Inc. (San Diego).

"Substituted heteroaromatic amines and uses thereof" was invented by Baogen Wu (San Diego), Pingda Ren (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 patent was filed on Oct. 8, 2025, under Applic...