ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,848, issued on July 14, was assigned to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC (Rahway, N.J.).

"Plasma kallikrein inhibitors" was invented by Jianming Bao (Princeton, N.J.), Natalija Cernaka (Cupertino, Calif.), Alan C. Cheng (San Francisco), Ying-Duo Gao (Middletown, N.J.), Salman Jabri (Moraga, Calif.), Jovan Alexander Lopez (New Haven, Conn.), Rohan Merchant (Burlingame, Calif.), Anthony Ken Ogawa (San Mateo, Calif.), Skylar K. Osler (Pasadena, Calif.), Christopher J. Sinz (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Phillip Patrick Sharp (San Francisco), Haiqun Tang (Belle Meade, N.J.), Maoqun Tian (Forster, Calif.), Dong Xiao (Warren, N.J.) and Song Yang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by ...