ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,969, issued on May 13, was assigned to Frederic Marin (Paris).

"Pharmaceutical composition comprising cyclodextrin complexes of anethole trithione or derivatives thereof" was invented by Nicolas Pineau (Carbon-Blanc, France), El Mustapha Belgsir (Poitiers, France), Frederic Turpin (Tours, France), Anne-Gaelle Fournial (La Madeleine, France), Aswin Dereymaker (Halle, Belgium), Natascha Audoore (Merelbeke, Belgium) and Ine De Cock (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition including anethole trithione or a derivative thereof of formula (I), sulfobutyl ether-beta-cyclodextrin and optionally a co-solvent, wherein the ra...