US Patent Issued to GE HEALTHCARE AS on Sept. 22 for "Process for the preparation of iopamidol" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,931, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to GE HEALTHCARE AS (Oslo, Norway).

"Process for the preparation of iopamidol" was invented by Martin Hennum (Oslo, Norway), Lone Aanerud Omtvedt (Oslo, Norway), Ole Magne Homestad (Lindesnes, Norway), Sumihar H.D. Silalahi (Lindesnes, Norway), Siw Anette Helle (Lindesnes, Norway), Mari Brusletten (Lindesnes, Norway) and Lars Terje Holmaas (Lindesnes, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a process for the preparation of a compound of Formula (II): wherein the process comprises: (i) reacting a compound of Formula (I) with pyridine and 2-acetyloxypropanoyl chloride ...