ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,041, issued on May 12, was assigned to WUHAN LL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"Heterocyclic compound and use thereof" was invented by Jinping Li (Wuhan, China), Xiaodan Guo (Wuhan, China), Feng Zhou (Wuhan, China), Jun Lou (Wuhan, China), Li Liu (Wuhan, China), Xiaoya Chen (Wuhan, China), Yihan Zhang (Wuhan, China), Yongkai Chen (Wuhan, China) and Chaodong Wang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a heterocyclic compound as represented by formula (I), a tautomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compound has better inhibitory activity on TRPC5, has good metab...