ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,593, issued on July 8, was assigned to VUAB PHARMA A.S. (Roztoky, Czech Republic).

"Platinum IV complexes with substantially increased antitumor efficacy" was invented by Vladimir Kysilka (Prague), Jan Mengler (Prague) and Milos Mikoska (Bruntal, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Invention relates to new platinum (IV) complexes with substantially increased antitumor efficacy; a process for preparing these new platinum (IV) complexes; a pharmaceutical composition and a final dosage form for oral administration of the new platinum (IV) complexes; and the use of the new platinum (IV) complex in a method to treat a tumor disea...