ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,699, issued on July 21, was assigned to Enterin Inc. (Philadelphia).

"Crystalline forms of squalamine" was invented by William A. Kinney (Newtown, Pa.), Anil Kumar (Skillman, N.J.), Qi Gao (South Plainfield, N.J.) and Giovanna Brancatelli (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides crystalline polymorphs of squalamine phosphate, methods of making the same, and methods of treatment using the same."

The patent was filed on Sept. 25, 2020, under Application No. 17/912,025.

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