ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,849, issued on June 10, was assigned to St. Andrews Pharmceutical Technology Ltd. (Henley-on-Thames, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and a method for the use of pulsed electromagnetic field to change the condition of a product and/or the generation of said product" was invented by William John Henry (St. Andrews, Great Britain) and Christopher Taylor (Maidenhead, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to apparatus and a method to allow the application of an electromagnetic field to a product for a period of time to alter a condition of the product. The condition change may be to speed up an occurring process an...