ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,614, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Somerset Therapeutics LLC (Somerset, N.J.).

"Ready-to-use ascorbic acid compound compositions" was invented by Aman Trehan (Hillsborough, N.J.), Ilango Subramanian (Warren, N.J.), Rahul Kalhapure (Somerset, N.J.) and Veerappan Subramanian (Warren, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention described here provides ready-to-use (RTU) pharmaceutical compositions in single unit dose packaging, such compositions including ascorbic acid compound(s), such as sodium ascorbate, and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients (e.g., a carrier and optionally other agents, such as a tonicity ...