ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,727, issued on June 10, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing peptide compound, protective group-forming reagent, and aromatic heterocyclic compound" was invented by Yosuke Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhei Kaneko (Kanagawa, Japan), Motomasa Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Makoto Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Mika Imamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirotaka Satou (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirofumi Omura (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuji Yoshimitsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Keita Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Daisuke Nakagawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method for producing a peptide compound including a step o...