US Patent Issued to Esperion Therapeutics on Aug. 26 for "Methods of making bempedoic acid and compositions of the same" (American, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,087, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Esperion Therapeutics Inc. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Methods of making bempedoic acid and compositions of the same" was invented by Richard Copp (Pinckney, Mich.), Mohamed Abdelnasser (New City, N.Y.), Christopher M. Cimarusti (Clementon, N.J.), Jonathan Lane (Longmont, Colo.), Michael Barkman (Louisville, Colo.), Rasidul Amin (Cary, N.C.), Arthur John Cooper (Mentor, Ohio), Damodaragounder Gopal (Highland Heights, Ohio) and Philipp Selig (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods of preparing 8-hydroxy-2,2,14,14-tetramethylpentadecanedioic acid and methods of makin...