US Patent Issued to KEIO UNIVERSITY, FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION AT KOBE, MORISHITA JINTAN on July 15 for "Capsule for treating ulcerative colitis" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,579, issued on July 15, was assigned to KEIO UNIVERSITY (Tokyo), FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION AT KOBE (Kobe, Japan) and MORISHITA JINTAN Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Capsule for treating ulcerative colitis" was invented by Takanori Kanai (Tokyo), Hideo Nishimura (Kobe, Japan), Tomoyuki Koyama (Hirakata, Japan), Takuhiko Adachi (Hirakata, Japan) and Hiroyuki Hayakawa (Hirakata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to obtain a capsule for treating ulcerative colitis which, when a capsule containing indigo is orally administered, acts more effectively than conventional ones and has...