ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,426, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Incyte Corp. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Process and intermediates for preparing a JAK1 inhibitor" was invented by Jiacheng Zhou (Newark, Del.), Shili Chen (Newark, Del.), Pingli Liu (Wilmington, Del.), David J. Meloni (Bear, Del.), Yongchun Pan (Wilmington, Del.), Naijing Su (Hockessin, Del.) and Michael Xia (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is related to processes for preparing itacitinib, or a salt thereof, and related synthetic intermediates related thereto."

The patent was filed on Dec. 19, 2023, under Application No. 18/545,545.

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