US Patent Issued to Vanderbilt University on March 17 for "Antagonists of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M4" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,234, issued on March 17, was assigned to Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Antagonists of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M4" was invented by Craig W. Lindsley (Brentwood, Tenn.), P. Jeffrey Conn (Nashville, Tenn.), Darren W. Engers (Brentwood, Tenn.), Julie L. Engers (Brentwood, Tenn.), Kayla J. Temple (Spring Hill, Tenn.), Aaron M. Bender (Spring Hill, Tenn.) and Logan A. Baker (Thompson's Station, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are substituted hexahydro-1H-cyclopenta[c]pyrrole compounds, which may be useful as antagonists of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M4 (mAChR M4). Also disclosed ...