ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,394, issued on April 29, was assigned to Medac Gesellschaft Fur Klinische Spezialpraparate MBH (Wedel, Germany).

"Crystalline form of treosulfan" was invented by Sebastian Bialleck (Wedel, Germany), Sven Haferkamp (Monchengladbach, Germany), Anna Mellor (Hamburg, Germany), Dominique Anna Gopalakrishnan (Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany) and Jurgen Dworak (Bochum, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crystalline form of treosulfan and methods to prepare it are described. This crystalline form of treosulfan is useful in pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of cancer and for conditioning therapy before transplantation of bone ma...