ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,827, issued on July 14, was assigned to National Health Research Institutes (Miaoli County, Taiwan).

"Pyrimidine compounds and their pharmaceutical uses" was invented by Chun-Ping Chang (Miaoli County, Taiwan), Ya-Hui Chi (Miaoli County, Taiwan), Chiung-Tong Chen (Miaoli County, Taiwan), Chuan Shih (Carmel, Ind.) and Yi-Yu Ke (Miaoli County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pyrimidine compounds of Formula (I). Assignments to the variables in the formula are set forth herein. Also disclosed is a method of treating cancer with one of the pyrimidine compounds."

The patent was filed on March 3, 2021, under Application No. 17/802,30...