ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,074, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to ESTETRA SRL (Liege, Belgium).
"Contraceptive methods with improved pearl index" was invented by Jean-Michel Foidart (Liege, Belgium) and Maud Jost (Liege, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are methods of providing contraception in a woman having a BMIless than=30.0 kg/m2, comprising: selecting a woman determined to have a BMIless than=30.0 kg/m2, and then orally administering to the selected woman a therapeutically effective amount of an estetrol component at a daily dose of from 14 mg to 16 mg, based on the estetrol moiety, and drospirenone at a daily dose of from 2.5 mg to 3.5 ...