ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,057, issued on May 27, was assigned to CALLIDITAS THERAPEUTICS AB (Stockholm).

"Pharmaceutical compositions" was invented by Eva Kristina Riesel (Molndal, Sweden), Lena Margareta Pereswetoff-Morath (Spanga, Sweden), Kari Sandvold (Uppsala, Sweden) and Christian Olle Andreas Pedersen (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides for a method of treatment of IgA nephropathy, which method comprises: (i) identifying a pharmaceutically acceptable composition intended to treat IgA nephropathy comprising budesonide and one or more pharmaceutically-acceptable excipients that provide for a modified release of ...