US Patent Issued to LEXICON PHARMACEUTICALS on May 27 for "Methods and compounds useful in the synthesis of an AAK1 inhibitor" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,325, issued on May 27, was assigned to LEXICON PHARMACEUTICALS INC. (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Methods and compounds useful in the synthesis of an AAK1 inhibitor" was invented by Tao Chen (Wuxi, China), Wenxue Wu (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Jun Yan (Changzhou, China), Xianglu Zeng (Changzhou, China) and Matthew Mangzhu Zhao (Edison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for the synthesis of (S)-1-((2',6-bis(difluoromethyl)-[2,4'-bipyridin]-5-yl)oxy)-2,4-dimethylpentan-2-amine and salts thereof are disclosed, as well as compounds useful therein."

The patent was filed on Feb. 24, 2023, under Application No. 18/114,050.

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