ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,504, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Hirofumi Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan).

"Drug delivery composition, method for producing same and use thereof" was invented by Hirofumi Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan), Masaki Mori (Atsugi, Japan), Shuji Akai (Nishinomiya, Japan) and Xin Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a safe and effective DDS technique that realizes higher accumulation in lesions and reduced accumulation in normal organs including the liver, and thus can afford sufficient therapeutic effects with smaller amounts of drugs. Specifically, a composition containing carbonate apatite particles loaded with ...