ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,489, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sitryx Therapeutics Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Compounds" was invented by Alessandro Mazzacani (Oxford, Great Britain), Paulette Greenidge (Oxford, Great Britain), Barry Teobald (Oxford, Great Britain), Matthew Fyfe (Oxford, Great Britain), Oscar Barba (Oxford, Great Britain), Paolo Ricci (Saffron Walden, Great Britain), Carlos Turrado Garcia (Saffron Walden, Great Britain), Nelly Piton (Saffron Walden, Great Britain) and Christopher Matheson (Saffron Walden, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to compounds of formula (I)and related aspects."

The patent was f...