US Patent Issued to ELI LILLY and Co. on Dec. 2 for "Three resin reactors in series peptide synthesizer" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,402, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ELI LILLY AND COMPANY (Indianapolis).

"Three resin reactors in series peptide synthesizer" was invented by Martin D. Johnson (Carmel, Ind.), Michael E. Kopach (Greenwood, Ind.), Mark R. Berglund (Zionsville, Ind.), Stephen Robert Groskreutz (Brownsburg, Ind.), Jingyao Wang (Carmel, Ind.) and Luke P. Webster (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis (SPPS) device and method of using the same for manufacturing peptides is taught herein. The system comprises at least two reactors, each reactor including a quantity of SPPS resin. The reactors are positioned in serie...