ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,459, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Lake Forest, Ill.).

"Methods of treatment using g-CSF protein complex" was invented by Shanta Chawla (Irvine, Calif.) and Gajanan Bhat (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a method of preventing, alleviating or treating a condition (i.e., neutropenia) in a subject in need thereof, the condition characterized by compromised white blood cell production in the subject. The method includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a protein complex on the same day as a chemotherapy regimen, wherein the protei...