US Patent Issued to Fennec Pharmaceuticals on May 27 for "Therapeutic uses for sodium thiosulfate formulations" (North Carolina, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,026, issued on May 27, was assigned to Fennec Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

"Therapeutic uses for sodium thiosulfate formulations" was invented by Alexander Smith (Apex, N.C.) and Rostislav Christov Raykov (Summit, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is anhydrous sodium thiosulfate, methods for synthesizing anhydrous sodium thiosulfate, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of treating ototoxicity. Anhydrous sodium thiosulfate is synthesized from sodium sulfite, sulfur, and cetylpyridinium chloride. The anhydrous sodium thiosulfate is formulated into a pharmaceutical composition comp...