ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,346, issued on March 25, was assigned to Fertin Pharma A/S (Vejle, Denmark).

"Oral powder mixture with small sized particles" was invented by Helle Wittorff (Vejle Ost, Denmark) and Christine Nohr Pedersen (Aarhus C, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder mixture for oral delivery of active ingredients includes a population of particles and one or more active ingredients, the population of particles including at least two types of sugar alcohol particles. At least one of the at least two types of sugar alcohol particles takes the form of i) non-directly compressible (non-DC) sugar alcohol particles or ii) directly compressi...