ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,089, issued on March 31, was assigned to Gilead Sciences Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Processes for preparing toll-like receptor modulator compounds" was invented by Andrea Ambrosi (Oakland, Calif.), Florence J. Bachrach (Foster City, Calif.), Pavel R. Badalov (Edmonton, Canada), Stephen P. Lathrop (Lake Bluff, Ill.), Jeffrey E. Merit (Foster City, Calif.), Beau P. Pritchett (San Francisco), Christopher S. Regens (San Francisco), Tiago Vieira (Edmonton, Canada), Adam B. Weinstein (Belmont, Calif.), Todd A. Wenderski (Hayward, Calif.) and Zehua Zheng (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides meth...