US Patent Issued to American Regent on Oct. 14 for "1,4-dihydropyridine compositions, methods of making and use" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,482, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to American Regent Inc. (Shirley, N.Y.).

"1,4-dihydropyridine compositions, methods of making and use" was invented by Daniel Walter Wehrung (Johnstown, Ohio), Meng Zhong (Westerville, Ohio), Saral Pinkal Patel (Powell, Ohio) and Bindhu Madhavi Rayaprolu (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising a class of calcium channel blockers and at least one chelating agent. More specifically, the pharmaceutical compositions comprise at least one 1,4-dihydropyridine (DHP) compound and at least one chelating agent. The chelating agents used in th...