US Patent Issued to KYORIN Pharmaceutical on March 17 for "15-PGDH inhibitor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,217, issued on March 17, was assigned to KYORIN Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"15-PGDH inhibitor" was invented by Shigeki Seto (Shimotsuga-gun, Japan), Hitomi Yamada (Shimotsuga-gun, Japan), Yoshifumi Saito (Shimotsuga-gun, Japan) and Haruaki Kurasaki (Shimotsuga-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound represented by general formula (1) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof for inhibiting 15-PDGH."

The patent was filed on Jan. 7, 2020, under Application No. 17/417,201.

*For further information, including images, charts and tables, please visit: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HIT...