US Patent Issued to Nivagen Pharmaceuticals on June 30 for "Lyophilized compositions of phenobarbital sodium salt" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,545, issued on June 30, was assigned to Nivagen Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Sacramento, Calif.).

"Lyophilized compositions of phenobarbital sodium salt" was invented by Bala Tripura Sundari Chodavarapu (Davis, Calif.), Thirupathi Mangali (Sacramento, Calif.), Jay Shukla (Sacramento, Calif.), Anand Shukla (Denver) and Dasaradhi Lakkaraju (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition of, method for producing, and use of an amorphous lyophilized Phenobarbital Sodium having high purity are presented. The amorphous lyophilized Phenobarbital Sodium is storage-stable being essentially void of impurities (e.g., phenyl ethylacety...