US Patent Issued to ALMIRALL on May 13 for "Process for making sarecycline hydrochloride" (Italian, Chinese, American, British, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,161, issued on May 13, was assigned to ALMIRALL LLC (Malvern, Pa.).

"Process for making sarecycline hydrochloride" was invented by Giovanni Palombi (Monza, Italy), Eugenio Castelli (Arlate, Italy), Giuseppe Motta (Rescaldina, Italy), Meinrad Brenner (Steg, Switzerland), Ruiliang Lu (Guangzhou, China), Shaozhi Huang (Foshan, China), William Paul Armstrong (Carrickfergus, Great Britain), Gajanan Joshi (South Plainfield, N.J.), Farzaneh Seyedi (Boston) and Sean Johnston (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described invention relates to sarecycline, related compounds, intermediates and salts thereof and processes for preparing the...