ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,495, issued on March 3, was assigned to Luye Innomind Pharma Shijiazhuang Co. Ltd. (Shijiazhuang City, China).

"VMAT2 inhibitor and preparation method therefor and application thereof" was invented by Jingwei Tian (Yantai, China), Rui Zhang (Yantai, China), Liang Ye (Yantai, China), Dawei Yu (Yantai, China), Guangying Du (Yantai, China), Zongliang Liu (Yantai, China), Fangxia Zou (Yantai, China) and Bo Cui (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a class of compounds that serve as VMAT2 inhibitors, and relates in particular to a compound represented by formula (I), or a stereoisomer or pharmaceutically...