ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Sept. 26 -- Six inventors Barbara Slusher, Kingsville, Maryland; Camilo Rojas, Baltimore, Maryland; Ajit G. Thomas, Baltimore, Maryland; Norman Haughey, Baltimore, Maryland; Marc Ferrer, Potomac, Maryland; and Xin Hu, Frederick, Maryland, have been awarded a patent (No. US 11766423 B2, initially filed March 1, 2019) for "2,6-dimethoxy-4-(5-phenyl-4-thiophene-2-yl-1H-imidazol-2-yl)-phenol (DPTIP) a small molecule inhibitor of neutral sphingomyelinase 2 (nSMase-2) for the tr . . .