ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,806, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Solid state forms" was invented by Mary Chaves (Arlington, Mass.), Patricia Lopez (Woodland Hills, Calif.), Prashant Agarwal (Chelsea, Mass.), Albert Amegadzie (Westlake Village, Calif.), Stephanie Azali (Woodland Hills, Calif.), Roman Shimanovich (Brighton, Mass.), Ron C. Kelly (Westlake Village, Calif.) and Darren Leonard Reid (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides crystalline and amorphous forms of 6-fluoro-7-(2-fluoro-6-hydroxyphenyl)-1-(4-methyl-2-(2-propanyl)-3-pyridinyl)-4-((2S)-2-methyl-4-(2-propenoyl)-1-pipe...