ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,027, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Method of reducing aromatic nitro compounds" was invented by Serena Bisagni (Cambridge, Great Britain), Amin Bornadel (Cambridge, Great Britain), Beatriz Dominguez (Cambridge, Great Britain), Jacques Lepaih (Cambridge, Great Britain), Steven M. Mennen (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Ahir Pushpanath (Cambridge, Great Britain), Iustina Slabu (Cambridge, Great Britain), Jason Tedrow (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Simon J. Hedley (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing a substrate selected from 2-methyl-5-nitropyridine and methyl 4-(2-f...