ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,793, issued on June 10, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan) and NIPPON CHEMIPHAR Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Method for renal protection" was invented by Michiaki Abe (Sendai, Japan), Seizo Koshiba (Sendai, Japan), Koichiro Nishioka (Tokyo), Kazuhiko Kawaguchi (Tokyo), Satomi Yamasaki (Tokyo) and Yasuyuki Teranaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for renal protection in chronic kidney disease, which contains a citric acid, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of a citric acid, or a hydrate thereof; and a mixture of the citric acid, the pharmaceutically acceptable s...