US Patent Issued to VIFOR FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE RENAL PHARMA on June 17 for "Particles of a mixture of iron(III)-oxyhydroxide, sucrose and one or more starches, preferably of sucroferric oxyhydroxide" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,778, issued on June 17, was assigned to VIFOR FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE RENAL PHARMA LTD (St. Gallen, Switzerland).

"Particles of a mixture of iron(III)-oxyhydroxide, sucrose and one or more starches, preferably of sucroferric oxyhydroxide" was invented by Nicolas Frison (Mannens, Switzerland), Miriam Spichiger (Heimisbach, Switzerland) and Melanie Ittel (Saint-Louis, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to particles of a mixture of iron(III)-oxyhydroxide, sucrose and one or more starches, preferably of sucroferric oxyhydroxide having a certain particle size distribution, a process for the manufacture thereof, the...