US Patent Issued to Vanderbilt University on Aug. 25 for "Antagonists of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M4" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,862, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Antagonists of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M4" was invented by Aaron M. Bender (Spring Hill, Tenn.), Matthew Spock (Nashville, Tenn.), Melissa A. Korkmaz-Vaisys (Nashville, Tenn.), Cori A. Malinky (Nashville, Tenn.), P. Jeffrey Conn (Nashville, Tenn.) and Craig W. Lindsley (Brentwood, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compounds of formula (III) useful as antagonists of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor MC4 (mAChR M4). Also disclosed herein are methods of making the compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising ...