US Patent Issued to FIDIA FARMACEUTICI on May 27 for "Pharmaceutical compositions comprising statins and hyaluronic acid derivatives" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,942, issued on May 27, was assigned to FIDIA FARMACEUTICI S.P.A. (Abano Terme, Italy).

"Pharmaceutical compositions comprising statins and hyaluronic acid derivatives" was invented by Carlo Barbera (Abano Terme, Italy) and Andrea Pastorello (Abano Terme, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising mixtures of a statin and a hyaluronic acid amide derivative which are useful in the treatment of inflammation and degradation of osteoarthritic joint cartilage, in particular post-traumatic osteoarthrosis and osteoarthrosis caused by physiological joint aging, and in the treat...