US Patent Issued to Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical, Shanghai Syncores Technologies on May 20 for "Method for preparing lurasidone hydrochloride" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,906, issued on May 20, was assigned to Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Zhejiang, China) and Shanghai Syncores Technologies Inc. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Method for preparing lurasidone hydrochloride" was invented by Yikai Zhang (Shanghai), Junzheng Huang (Shanghai), Hao Lu (Shanghai), Xiaowen Guo (Shanghai), Yafei Jiang (Shanghai), Yuanhai Gao (Shanghai), Luning Huang (Shanghai), Anping Tao (Shanghai), Jianguo An (Shanghai) and Hong Gu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing lurasidone hydrochloride by reacting lurasidone free alkali reacts with hydrochloric acid in a mixed solvent of an alcoholic solvent an...