ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,707, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to PRISM BIOLAB Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Heterocyclic compounds" was invented by Hajime Takashima (Kanagawa, Japan), Eiji Honda (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomonori Taguri (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Ozawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Haruyuki Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoichiro Hirose (Kanagawa, Japan) and Keisuke Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound of the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the DESCRIPTION, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof has a superior inhibitory activity on cancer cell proliferation."

The patent was filed on July 16, 2021, under Applicati...