ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,274, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Pacira Pharmaceuticals Inc. (San Diego).

"Zinc meloxicam complex microparticle multivesicular liposome formulations and processes for making the same" was invented by Louie Daniel Garcia (San Diego), Stephanie Kurz (San Diego), Soroush Ardekani (San Diego), Kathleen Dunne Albright Los (San Diego), Katherine Stone (San Diego), Ernest G. Schutt (San Diego) and Vladimir Kharitonov (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to multivesicular liposome formulations encapsulating zinc meloxicam complex microparticles. Methods of making the zinc meloxicam ...