ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,494, issued on May 6, was assigned to Baxter International Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.) and Baxter Healthcare SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Packaged, sealed container system for stable storage of an oxygen sensitive pharmaceutical formulation" was invented by Steven M. Cope (Lake Villa, Ill.) and Allan E. Titus (Deerfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaged, sealed container system for stable storage of a formulation of an oxygen-sensitive pharmaceutical compound, the packaged, sealed container system comprising a primary container including therein a formulation of an oxygen-sensitive pharmaceutical compound, a secondary outer...