ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,041, issued on July 7, was assigned to Taiho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and Astex Therapeutics Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"4-aminobut-2-enamide derivatives and salt thereof" was invented by Kazuaki Shibata (Ibaraki, Japan), Yuichi Kawai (Ibaraki, Japan), Hiroki Asakura (Ibaraki, Japan), Tetsuya Sugimoto (Ibaraki, Japan), Naoki Egashira (Ibaraki, Japan), Tomohiro Yamamoto (Ibaraki, Japan), Tatsuya Suzuki (Ibaraki, Japan), Yuki Kataoka (Ibaraki, Japan), Takeshi Sagara (Ibaraki, Japan), Toshihiro Sakamoto (Ibaraki, Japan), Hitomi Kondo (Ibaraki, Japan), Christopher Charles Frederick Hamlett (Cambridge, Great Britain), Patrick Schopf (London) and David Geoffrey Twigg (Cambri...