ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,257, issued on March 25.

"Testosterone dodecanoate compositions and methods" was invented by Mahesh V. Patel (Salt Lake City), Kongnara Papangkorn (Salt Lake City), Jonathan Ogle (Salt Lake City), Nachiappan Chidambaram (Salt Lake City) and Benjamin J. Bruno (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method and oral composition for treating a plurality of End stage diseases such as end-stage renal disease, chronic kidney disease, liver cirrhosis, chronic liver failure, end stage liver disease, Cancer, congestive Heart failure, pulmonary fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In an embodiment of the inven...