US Patent Issued to Boehringer Ingelheim International on Dec. 2 for "Compositions and methods for studying drug metabolism" (Connecticut, West Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,235, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH (Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany).

"Compositions and methods for studying drug metabolism" was invented by Tom Sze-Yin Chan (Danbury, Conn.), Alexander Matthew Horspool (Morgantown, W.va.) and Ting Wang (Danbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to microsomes bound to magnetizable beads and their use in studying or determining drug metabolism. Compositions, methods, kits and systems involving the magnetizable bead-bound microsomes are described herein."

The patent was filed on Jan. 14, 2021, under Application No. 17/148,748. ...