US Patent Issued to Amgen on Nov. 4 for "Process for preparing 4-methyl-2-propan-2-yl-pyridine-3-carbonitrile" (North Carolina, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,896, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Process for preparing 4-methyl-2-propan-2-yl-pyridine-3-carbonitrile" was invented by Austin Gerald Smith (Cary, N.C.), Padmini Kavuru Ananthoji (Townsend, Mass.), Peter Dornan (Stoneham, Mass.) and Xijie Dai (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are processes for preparing Compound A or a salt thereof, comprising admixing Compound B or a salt thereof and crotonaldehyde in the presence of an acid catalyst and a solvent to form Compound A"

The patent was filed on Dec. 19, 2024, under Application No. 18/988,131.

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