ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,665, issued on July 21, was assigned to YUHAN Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Bicyclic fused ring derivative or salt thereof and pharmaceutical composition comprising same" was invented by Eun-Kyung Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Cheol-Hee Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kang-Yo Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyun-Ho Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a bicyclic fused ring, such as for example, benzo[d]imidazole, benzo[d][1,2,3]triazole, or 8-oxo-8,9-dihydro-7H-purine derivative, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a process for the preparation thereof, a pharmaceutical composition comprising t...