ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,178, issued on July 28, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Polysorbate mixtures having modified fatty acid ester distribution" was invented by Sandeep Yadav (South San Franciso, Calif.), Nidhi Doshi (South San Francisco, Calif.), Tomanna Shobha (South San Francisco, Calif.), Anthony Tomlinson (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Amit Srivastava (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides polysorbate 20 compositions with particular fatty acid ester concentrations. In some embodiments, they may be used in pharmaceutical formulations, for example, to improve stabil...