US Patent Issued to TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK on Feb. 18 for "Gel formulations for local drug release" (Danish, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,527, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK (KGS Lyngby, Denmark).

"Gel formulations for local drug release" was invented by Thomas Lars Andresen (Vanlose, Denmark), Linda Maria Bruun (Fredriksberg, Denmark), Trine Bjornbo Larsen (Kobenhavn N, Denmark), Rasmus Irming Jolck (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark) and Anders Elias Hansen (Bunkeflostrand, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a composition comprising non-water soluble carbohydrates, wherein at least 50% of the non-water soluble carbohydrates are carbohydrates selected from derivatives of lactose, maltose, trehalose, raffinose,...