ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,779, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NIKANG THERAPEUTICS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Processes of making 3-fluoro-5-(((1S,2aR)-1,3,3,4,4-pentafluoro-2a-hydroxy-2,2a,3,4-tetrahydro-1H-cyclopenta[cdinden-7-yl)oxy)-benzonitrile and polymorphs thereof" was invented by Charles M. Cook (Wilmington, Del.), Jiping Fu (Danville, Calif.), Yigang He (Newark, Del.), Yan Lou (Pleasanton, Calif.), Rongzhen Chen (Jiangsu, China) and Yan Dong (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides certain processes of making 3-fluoro-5-(((1S,2aR)-1,3,3,4,4-pentafluoro-2a-hydroxy-2,2a,3,4-tetrahydro-1H-cyclopenta[cd]inden-7-...