ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,137, issued on June 16, was assigned to OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Benzolactam compounds as protein kinase inhibitors" was invented by Valerio Berdini (Cambridge, Great Britain), Ildiko Maria Buck (London), James Edward Harvey Day (Cambridge, Great Britain), Charlotte Mary Griffiths-Jones (Cambridge, Great Britain), Thomas Daniel Heightman (Harpenden, Great Britain), Steven Howard (Cambridge, Great Britain), Christopher William Murray (Cambridge, Great Britain), David Norton (Cambridge, Great Britain), Marc O'Reilly (Cambridge, Great Britain), Alison Jo-Anne Woolford (Hereford, Great Britain), Michael Liam Cooke (Cambridge, Great Britain), David Cousin (Nottingham, G...