ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,435, issued on April 29, was assigned to Pacira Pharmaceuticals Inc. (San Diego).

"Multivesicular liposome formulations of dexamethasone" was invented by Paige N. Davis (San Diego), Soroush M. Ardekani (San Diego), Stephanie M. Kurz (San Diego), Louie D. Garcia (San Diego), Kathleen D. A. Los (San Diego), John J. Grigsby Jr. (San Diego), Damon A. Leon (San Diego), Eran Levy (San Diego) and Alisha R. Simonian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the present application are related to multivesicular liposome (MVL) formulations encapsulating dexamethasone or an ester or an ester salt thereof, for example, dexamet...