ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,536, issued on April 21, was assigned to YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM LTD. (Jerusalem) and HADASIT MEDICAL RESEARCH SERVICES & DEVELOPMENT Ltd. (Jerusalem).

"Bioactive phenolate ionic complexes" was invented by Abraham Jacob Domb (Jerusalem), Noam Steinman (Jerusalem) and Yakir Rottenberg (Elazar, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides an isolated material, or a phenolate form of at least one phenol-containing active material, wherein the isolated material comprises one or more phenolate species and a counter ion (a cation) in the form of a metal salt, a phosphonium ...