US Patent Issued to CYTOKINETICS on March 11 for "Process for preparing aficamten" (California, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,024, issued on March 11, was assigned to CYTOKINETICS INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Process for preparing aficamten" was invented by Denise Andersen (Montara, Calif.), Matthew Pfeiffer (Salt Lake City), Norma Tom (Belmont, Calif.) and Bradley P. Morgan (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a process for the preparation of (R)-N-(5-(5-ethyl-1,2,4-oxadiazol-3-yl)-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-1-yl)-1-methyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide, intermediates thereof, and salts of the foregoing."

The patent was filed on Sept. 15, 2023, under Application No. 18/468,636.

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