US Patent Issued to ELOBIX on July 1 for "Method for producing a 1,5-benzothiazepin compound" (Swedish, Japanese, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,589, issued on July 1, was assigned to ELOBIX AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for producing a 1,5-benzothiazepin compound" was invented by Shinya Kiguchi (Izumo, Japan), Ganapati G. Bhat (Bangalore, India), Johnson M. Coutinho (Bangalore, India), Mikael Dahlstrom (Molndal, Sweden), Michael Lofthagen (Stockholm) and Akinori Tatara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a compound of formula (I) comprising: reacting a compound of formula (II) with a compound of formula (III) in the presence of a triazine compound to obtain a compound of formula (IV), and deprote...