US Patent Issued to SUZHOU BRIGHTHOPE PHARMATECH on March 31 for "Process for the production of levetiracetam" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,059, issued on March 31, was assigned to SUZHOU BRIGHTHOPE PHARMATECH Co. LTD (Jiangsu Province, China).

"Process for the production of levetiracetam" was invented by Songzhou Hu (Princeton, N.J.), Lijun Deng (Hubei, China), Wen Yu (Hubei, China) and Zhen Song (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a process for the production of levetiracetam by crystallizing levetiracetam in an aqueous solution, optionally in the presence of a water-soluble solvent. The product of levetiracetam contains no residual organic solvent."

The patent was filed on June 15, 2023, under Application No. 18/210,330.

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