ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,191, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Eisai R&D Management Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Production method for synthetic intermediate of monocyclic pyridine derivative" was invented by Mitsuo Nagai (Kamisu, Japan), Takashi Fukuyama (Tsukuba, Japan), Yasuaki Kamada (Tokyo), Jun Niijima (Tsukuba, Japan), Hirofumi Kuroda (Kamisu, Japan), Yuki Karoji (Kamisu, Japan), Keiichi Murakami (Kamisu, Japan), Masayuki Omori (Kamisu, Japan), Yusuke Miyashita (Kamisu, Japan), Atsushi Kamada (Tsukuba, Japan) and Masaaki Matsuda (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a production process allowing more high-yield and efficient sy...