ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,055, issued on March 11, was assigned to CAMURUS AB (Sweden).

"Lipid-controlled release compositions" was invented by Fredrik Tiberg (Lund, Sweden), Catalin Nistor (Lund, Sweden), Markus Johnsson (Lund, Sweden), David Hemmerlin (Basel, Switzerland), Johannes Kluge (Basel, Switzerland) and Priyanga Wickramanayake (Basel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a glass syringe or a glass cartridge, for parenterally administering, containing a lipid-based pre-formulation suitable for refrigerated storage, wherein the lipid-based pre-formulation includes 20-80 wt % of a diacyl glycerol having a fatty acid comp...