US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC on June 10 for "Methods for making and using pharmaceutical compositions for iontophoresis" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,792, issued on June 10, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland) and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Methods for making and using pharmaceutical compositions for iontophoresis" was invented by Mahyar Z. Kermani (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of making and using pharmaceutical compositions for iontophoresis that include selecting an isotonic pharmaceutical composition that has ions of active and non-active ingredients and reducing/removing the ions of the non-active ingredients from the pharmaceutical composition to produce a ...