ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,999, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to RK PHARMA INC. (Pearl River, N.Y.).

"Composition of ferric maltol for oral administration" was invented by Ravishanker Kovi (North Brunswick, N.J.), Prasad Vure (Vadodara, India), Raghu Rami Reddy Kasu (Pearl River, N.Y.), Thupalli Ajey Kumar Reddy (Bangalore, India), Yekkanti Vamshi (Bangalore, India), Jayraman Kannappan (Vadodara, India) and Hardik Vyas (Vadodara, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an improved composition of ferric maltol or ferric trimaltol for the treatment of iron deficiency, wherein the composition comprises the active ferric maltol or ferric tr...