ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,270, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SHIONOGI & Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Mesh for dissolution test" was invented by Kensuke Horiuchi (Hyogo, Japan), Satoyo Matsuura (Osaka, Japan) and Maki Okabe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When the mesh is placed under the bottom of a blade and over the bottom of a vessel in the dissolution test assembly equipped with either a vessel specified in the dissolution test method of the Japanese Pharmacopoeia, the United States Pharmacopoeia or the European Pharmacopoeia or a vessel used for the dissolution test, and a paddle formed from a blade and a shaft, and the suspensions and the...