ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,214, issued on July 29, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Combined pharmaceutical formulation comprising drug-containing liposome composition and platinum preparation" was invented by Ken Okada (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Susumu Shimoyama (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan) and Mikinaga Mori (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a pharmaceutical formulation obtained by combining a liposome composition, in which liposomes encapsulate a drug, with a platinum preparation. According to the present invention, there is provided a pharmaceutical formulation including (A) a lipos...