Article: Patent No. 7,612,199 Issued on Nov. 3, Assigned to Alfa Wassermann for Polymorphic Form (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 7 -- Guiseppe Glaudio Viscomi, Manuela Campana, Dario Braga, Donatella Confortini, Vicenzo Cannata, Paolo Righi and Goffredo Rosini, all from Bologna, Italy, have developed a polymorphic form. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,612,199 on Nov. 3.

The patent has been assigned to Alfa Wassermann S.p.A., Bologna.

According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Crystalline polymorphous forms of rifaximin (INN) antibiotic named rifaximin ? and rifaximin ?, and a poorly crystalline form named rifaximin ?, useful in the production of medicinal preparations containing rifaximin for oral and topical use and obtained by means of a ...

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