US Patent Issued to New Jersey Institute of Technology on March 4 for "Continuous production of active pharmaceutical ingredients" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,943, issued on March 4, was assigned to New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, N.J.).

"Continuous production of active pharmaceutical ingredients" was invented by Kamalesh Sirkar (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a method of producing active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). The method includes subjecting a reaction mixture with an API precursor to solvent extraction to produce a reactant stream with the API precursor. The method includes concentrating the API precursor in the reactant stream using at least one membrane. The method includes carrying out a reaction in a membra...