US Patent Issued to ANI Pharmaceuticals on June 10 for "Kits for preparing and delivering purified corticotropin" (Wisconsin, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,787, issued on June 10, was assigned to ANI Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Baudette, Minn.).

"Kits for preparing and delivering purified corticotropin" was invented by Edward M. DeSimone III (Indianapolis), Weijun Cheng (Middleton, Wis.) and Zachary Holcomb (Waunakee, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kit and sterile preparation of purified corticotropin and methods relating thereto in which the preparation includes corticotropin extracted from a whole porcine pituitary gland including both anterior and posterior portions, and having proteins or peptides having a molecular weight higher than 4.6 kDa removed. Methods of manufacturing, test...