ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,034, issued on May 12, was assigned to TERREMOTO BIOSCIENCES INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Non-covalent modifiers of AKT1 and uses thereof" was invented by Hang Chu (San Mateo, Calif.), Kin S. Yang (San Mateo, Calif.), Solomon H. Reisberg (Contra Costa, Calif.), Adam Zajdlik (San Francisco), Jordan D. Carelli (San Francisco), Brian P. Bestvater (South San Francisco, Calif.), Timothy R. Hansen (San Francisco) and Peter A. Thompson (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are non-covalent modifiers of AKT1 of Formula (I), (II), (II-A), (III), (III-A), (III-B), (IV), (IV-A), (IV-B), (V), (V-A), (V-B), (VI), ...