ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,589, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Foundry Therapeutics Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Implantable polymer depots for the controlled release of therapeutic agents" was invented by Karun D. Naga (Los Altos, Calif.), Hanson S. Gifford III (Woodside, Calif.), Stephen W. Boyd (San Francisco), Patrick H. Ruane (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Jackie Joe Hancock (Berkeley, Calif.), Michael Feldstein (San Francisco), Koon Kiat Teu (Singapore), Honglei Wang (Singapore), Jingnan Luo (Singapore), Daniel Boon Lim Seet (Singapore), Wei Li Lee (Singapore) and Nassireddin Mokarram-Dorri (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present techno...