US Patent Issued to ANNA UNIVERSITY on Dec. 9 for "Production of L-2-aminobutyrate from citramalate, citraconate or 2-oxobutanoate" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,416, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ANNA UNIVERSITY (Chennai, India).

"Production of L-2-aminobutyrate from citramalate, citraconate or 2-oxobutanoate" was invented by Akila Thirumalai (Chennai, India), Padmapriya Ganapathy Raman (Chennai, India), Anitha Janet Roshni Yesudhas (Chennai, India), Tamilselvan Jayavelu (Kanchipuram, India), Nikhil Sangith (Palakkad, India), Mahalakshmi Natarajan (Chennai, India), Pandiraj Suppuram (Srivilliputtur Taluk, India) and Ramalingam Subramanian (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to preparation of key drug intermediate, L-2-amino butyric acid (L-2-ABA) b...