ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,404, issued on April 21, was assigned to Ionic Alliance Foundation Inc (Indian Hills, Colo.).

"Synthetic cellular membrane chemical ionophore delivery system comprising hexa-aqua ligand compositions" was invented by Kevin Walton Rude (Lowell, Mich.), Michael Kenneth Krysiak (Conifer, Colo.) and Jasen Eric Petersen (Indian Hills, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synthetic ionophores for the active carry and transport of free ions across biological membranes in vivo, comprising coordination complexes of molecules with polarized hexa-aqua and/or tetra-aqua systems of free ionic metals and ionic salts as the ionophores, useful in tr...