ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,786, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Morphic Therapeutic Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Inhibitors of AlphavBeta6 integrin" was invented by Bryce A. Harrison (Framingham, Mass.), James E. Dowling (Lexington, Mass.), Aleksey I. Gerasyuto (Flemington, N.J.), Matthew G. Bursavich (Needham, Mass.), Dawn M. Troast (Bedford, Mass.), Blaise S. Lippa (Newton, Mass.), Bruce N. Rogers (Belmont, Mass.), Cheng Zhong (Belmont, Mass.), Qi Qiao (Natick, Mass.), Fu-Yang Lin (Sudbury, Mass.), Brian Sosa (Cambridge, Mass.), Andrea Bortolato (Metuchen, N.J.), Mats A. Svensson (New York), Eugene Hickey (Danbury, Conn.), Kyle D. Konze (Katonah, N.Y.), Tyler Day (New York) and Byungchan Kim (West New York,...