US Patent Issued to Pacira Therapeutics on July 22 for "Sustained release thermosetting gels comprising sodium channel blockers and the methods of making same" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,764, issued on July 22, was assigned to Pacira Therapeutics Inc. (Brisbane, Calif.).

"Sustained release thermosetting gels comprising sodium channel blockers and the methods of making same" was invented by Scott Kelley (Burlington, Mass.), Ujjwal Joshi (Burlington, Mass.), Ami Jo (Burlington, Mass.), John Derek Jackson (Burlington, Mass.), Rebecca Senter (Boston) and Neil Bodick (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions comprising a thermosensitive hydrogel formulation of funapide and a tri-block polymer, and methods of use and manufacture of the compositions for management of acute pain or p...