ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,243, issued on April 7, was assigned to THERACOSBIO LLC (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Pharmaceutical formulations" was invented by Feng Wang (Shanghai), Ankit Shrivastava (Madhya Pradesh, India), Rina Shah (Gujarat, India), Brian Seed (Boston), Vinay Patil (Maharashtra, India), Michael J. Hadd (San Jose, Calif.), Fuxia Dong (Shanghai), Vipan Dhall (Brampton, Canada), Chunfeng Dai (Shanghai), Joseph Ho-Lun Chau (Whistler, Canada) and Qiuhua Cai (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pharmacokinetic profile of the SGLT2 inhibitor bexagliflozin can be improved by formulating it as an extended release tablet. Compared with standard immedi...