ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,446, issued on June 23, was assigned to PI INDUSTRIES LTD. (Udaipur-Rajasthan, India).

"Process for the synthesis of anthranilic acid/amide compounds and intermediates thereof" was invented by Tridib Mahapatra (Udaipur-Rajasthan, India), Pranab Kumar Patra (Udaipur-Rajasthan, India), Alexander G.M. Klausener (Pulheim, Germany), Sanjib Mal (Udaipur-Rajasthan, India) and Raju Sharma (Hoshiarpur-Punjab, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention disclosed a process for the synthesis of compound of formula (Z) or a salt thereof,wherein, R, R1, R2, R3 and R10 are as defined in the detailed description. The process further ...