US Patent Issued to Merz North America on March 4 for "Methods and compositions for treating undesired implanted tissue filler" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,661, issued on March 4, was assigned to Merz North America Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Methods and compositions for treating undesired implanted tissue filler" was invented by Wojciech Danysz (Nidderau, Germany), Peter Kreymerman (Raleigh, N.C.) and Patrick Plitt (Bad Homburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating undesired implanted calcium phosphate tissue filler by administering an effective amount of a pharmaceutically acceptable hyperosmotic composition. The hyperosmotic composition may be hyperosmotic solution, particularly a hyperosmotic aqueous solution. The hyperosmotic composition is administration to an a...