ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,951, issued on Aug. 26.

"Prevention of local tumor recurrence following surgery using sustainedand/or delayed release of medicaments contained in micro-particles" was invented by Soon Kap Hahn (Irvine, Calif.), Gantumur Battogtokh (Incheon, South Korea), Oyuntuya Gotov (Incheon, South Korea), Gil Man Kim (Anyang, South Korea) and Min Hyo Seo (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and compositions for treatment of a patient having a wound resulting from surgical resection of a tumor mass. In some embodiments, the methods provided herein include administering to the entirety of the wound area a...