ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,217, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Alivus Life Sciences Ltd. (Solapur, India).

"Process for the preparation of lasmiditan" was invented by Shekhar Bhaskar Bhirud (Mumbai, India), Samir Naik (Thane, India), Shafakat Ali Nasir Ali (Thane, India), Pramod Vitthal Patil (Panvel, India), Deepak Baviskar (Mumbai, India), Mahendra Ramesh Patil (Jalgaon, India) and Venkata Raghavendra Acharyulu Palle (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of lasmiditan, a compound of formula I, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, the process comprising reacting a compound of form...