ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,615, issued on March 24, was assigned to Bayer HealthCare LLC (Indianola, Pa.).

"Topical analgesic gel compositions" was invented by Debanjan Das (Morristown, N.J.), Emanuel Vizzotti (Millburn, N.J.), Thomas Dann (Palm Harbor, Fla.), Renee Nelson (Brandon, Fla.), Courtney C. Haynes (Dunedin, Fla.), Soundarya Vaithianathan (Parsippany, N.J.), Reginald Bradley (Bedminster, N.J.), Reinhard Walter (Morristown, N.J.) and Gerard Meisel (Budd Lake, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are topical analgesic gel compositions having relatively high payloads of menthol and camphor by micro-emulsion technology and methods of preparing t...