ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,373, issued on July 8, was assigned to BAYER AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Nano-seeding" was invented by Adrian Dobrowolski (Remscheid, Germany), Giovanni Maria Maggioni (Cologne, Germany), Michal Sowa (Wuppertal, Germany), Clemens Bothe (Leverkusen, Germany), Eva Esser (Duesseldorf, Germany) and Christoph Nueboldt (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "What is described herein relates to a method for generating micro-particles comprising the steps of a) providing a homogenous supersaturated solution of a substance in a crystallization medium b) providing a seeding material characterized by a nano-particle size of a d50 between...