ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,384, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to JP CARES (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Drug delivery composition using crosslinked hyaluronic acid and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Yungee Lee (Gwangju-si, South Korea), Minyong Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Songyi Han (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Myeong Hee Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a drug delivery composition using crosslinked hyaluronic acid, a manufacturing method therefor, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the drug delivery composition and a drug and having a desired release behavior."

The patent was f...