US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Pharma on May 12 for "Oxadiazole derivative" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,011, issued on May 12, was assigned to Sumitomo Pharma Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Oxadiazole derivative" was invented by Yoshiaki Isobe (Osaka, Japan), Tomoyuki Tanaka (Osaka, Japan) and Hirotaka Miyachi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a compound of formula (1) wherein Q1 is halogen atom, Q2 is hydrogen atom, etc., X, Y, and Z are nitrogen atom or oxygen atom, and R1 has a given structure, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a medicament comprising the compound for treating and/or preventing a disease such as epilepsy."

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