ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,834, issued on July 14, was assigned to Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Bicyclic compounds and their uses" was invented by Vincent Bordas (Village-Neuf, France), Jvan Brun (Muttenz, Switzerland), Markus Furegati (Allschwil, Switzerland), Wanben Gong (Suzhou, China), Jacques Hamon (Habsheim, France), Jurgen Hans-Hermann Hinrichs (Schopfheim, Germany), Philipp Holzer (Sissach, Switzerland), Fatma Limam (Strasbourg, France), Henrik Mobitz (Arlesheim, Switzerland), Sandro Nocito (Wolflinswil, Switzerland), Simone Plattner (Weil am Rhein, Germany), Niko Schmiedeberg (Riehen, Switzerland), Joseph Schoepfer (Riehen, Switzerland), Ross Sinclair Strang (Hagenthal-le-Bas, France), Shupin...