US Patent Issued to Epizon Pharma on Aug. 5 for "Methods and compositions for preventing or treating tissue calcification" (New York, Georgia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,060, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Epizon Pharma Inc. (New York).

"Methods and compositions for preventing or treating tissue calcification" was invented by James A. Tumlin (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Paul L. Darke (Hingham, Mass.) and John M. Rudey (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods and compositions for preventing or treating (e.g., slowing the progression of, arresting, and/or reversing) tissue calcification in a subject in need thereof and, more particularly, the invention relates to methods of using menaquinone-7 (MK-7) and/or menaquinol-7 (MKH2-7) for preventing or treating (e.g., slowing the pr...