ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,654, issued on July 22, was assigned to HARMAN FINOCHEM Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Process for the preparation of highly pure valsartan" was invented by Nitin Sharadchandra Pradhan (Thane, India), Vijay Trimbak Kadam (Aurangabad, India), Vishalkumar Rajendrakumar Shah (Aravalli, India), Pankaj Shrawan Chaudhari (Jalgaon, India), Harpreet Singh Minhas (Mumbai, India) and Gurpreet Singh Minhas (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a process for the preparation and purification of Valsartan. The process according to the invention is capable of removing the toxic nitroamine impurities and providing substantially p...