US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, cystetic Medicines on Sept. 23 for "Ion channel prosthetic compositions comprising lipid-coated crystals of amphotericin B" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,899, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.) and cystetic Medicines Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Ion channel prosthetic compositions comprising lipid-coated crystals of amphotericin B" was invented by Martin D. Burke (Champaign, Ill.), Agnieszka Lewandowska (Savoy, Ill.), Corinne Soutar (Urbana, Ill.), Jeffry G. Weers (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Thomas Tarara (Burlingame, Calif.) and Danforth P. Miller (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions, comprising: (i) amphotericin B or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or hydrate t...