ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,262, issued on May 26, was assigned to Neuheit Pharma Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Hyderabad, India).

"Process for the preparation of topical formulation" was invented by Venkateswarlu Vobalaboina (Hyderabad, India), Vijaykumar Nagabandi (Hyderabad, India), Pankaj Chatki (Hyderabad, India), Niroop Lakkapatri (Hyderabad, India) and Pratibhanusha Chepuru (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the process for the preparation of topical formulations of anthraquinone compound. The present invention specifically relates to the process for the preparation of topical formulations of Rhein or Diacerein in ...