US Patent Issued to ETH Zurich on Dec. 30 for "Apparatus and process for the automated chemical synthesis of compounds" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,566, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ETH Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Apparatus and process for the automated chemical synthesis of compounds" was invented by Jeffrey William Bode (Zurich), Benedikt Matthias Wanner (Zurich), Kuang-Yen Chen (Zurich), Vijaya Pattabiraman (Volketwswil, Switzerland) and Paula Louise Nichols (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an process for the automated synthesis of at least one chemical compound including providing at least one substrate in at least one solvent in the at least one reaction container; automatically passing the at least one substrate through at leas...