ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,328, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Crescita Therapeutics Inc. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Solid-forming topical formulations for pain control" was invented by Jie Zhang (Salt Lake City), Wade Hull (Kaysville, Utah) and Ngoc Truc-Chi Vo (Longueuil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of applying a solid forming local anesthetic formulations can include applying a layer of a solid-forming formulation to a skin surface, wherein the solid-forming local anesthetic formulation includes from 4 wt % to 30 wt % of a local anesthetic, less than 36 wt % dicalcium phosphate, water, and a polymer. These methods can further include main...