Van Frank Telecommunications has a patent on a cellular transmission process. The company has amortized the patent on a straightline basis since $2020,$ when it was acquired at a cost of $$9$ million at the beginning of that year. Due to rapid technological advances in the industry, management decided that the patent would benefit the company over a total of six years rather than the nine$-$year life being used to amortize its cost. The decision was made at the beginning of $2024.$

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Prepare the year$-$end journal entry for patent amortization in $2024.$ No amortization was recorded during the year.

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