US Patent Issued to Merck Sharp & Dohme on Sept. 29 for "Synthesis of BTK inhibitor and intermediates thereof" (New Jersey, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,244, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC (Rahway, N.J.).

"Synthesis of BTK inhibitor and intermediates thereof" was invented by Yonggang Chen (Westfield, N.J.), James Corry (South Plainfield, N.J.), Richard Desmond (Lebanon, N.J.), Michael J. Di Maso (East Brunswick, N.J.), Jacob H. Forstater (South Orange, N.J.), Jeffrey T. Kuethe (Somerset, N.J.), Nadine Kuhl (Garwood, N.J.), Reed Larson (Jersey City, N.J.), Francois Levesque (Morris Plains, N.J.), Karthik Narsimhan (Waltham, Mass.), Douglas Otte (Chatham, N.J.), Christopher K. Prier (Newark, N.J.), Michael Shevlin (Middlesex, N.J.), Eric Sirota (Hoboken, N.J.), Lushi Tan (Edison, N.J.), David A. Thaisri...