ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,462, issued on May 26, was assigned to Pliant Therapeutics Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Integrin inhibitor and uses thereof" was invented by Jacob Cha (San Bruno, Calif.), Katerina Leftheris (San Mateo, Calif.), Qi Gao (Franklin Park, N.J.), Jian Wang (Branchburg, N.J.) and Dalian Zhao (Fanwood, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are integrin inhibitors, compositions thereof, and methods of their uses. Crystalline forms of salts of the inhibitors are also described, along with methods of preparing the crystalline forms. X-ray powder diffraction data, thermogravimetric analysis, and differential scanning calori...