MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517049220 A) filed by Eli Lilly And Company, Indianapolis, on May 22, for 'method of synthesizing 4'-phosphate analog nucleotide phosphoramidite.'

Inventor(s) include Frank, Scott Alan; and Rizzo, John Robert.

The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Methods are disclosed for making a 4'-phosphate analog phosphoramidite known as MeMOP, which can be used in the synthesis of oligonucleotides such as therapeutic oligonucleotides."

The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 22, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US...