ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,720, issued on July 21, was assigned to Somerset Therapeutics LLC (Somerset, N.J.).

"Compositions for the effective treatment of vitamin C deficiency-related diseases and other conditions" was invented by Veerappan Subramanian (Warren, N.J.), Ilango Subramanian (Warren, N.J.), Aman Trehan (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Rahul Kalhapure (Somerset, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention described here provides compositions for the efficient and effective treatment of vitamin C deficiency-related diseases and other conditions comprising the administration of pharmaceutical compositions comprising ascorbic acid compound(s), such as s...