ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,681, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CIPLA Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Methods for the preparation of sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor modulators and solid forme thereof" was invented by Srinivas Laxminarayan Pathi (Bangalore, India), Puppala Ravi Kumar (Bangalore, India), Ramanaiah Chennuru (Nellore, India), Durga Surya Narayana Yarra (Bangalore, India), Yellanki Jagannadham (Bangalore, India), Siva Krishna Nangedda (Mandavalli, India), Lakkireddy Pullareddy (Kumbhagiri Village, India) and Raju Barla (Peddapalli, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to process for preparation of 1-(4-{1-[(E)-4-cyclohexyl-...