07.01.07
Sabinsa Corp., Piscataway, NJ, has secured its 30th patent, U.S. patent No. 7,202,270. Titled "Convenient stable non-hygroscopic crystalline solid forms of racemic and chiral LA-plus salts,” this patent protects the preparation of water-soluble salts of lipoic acid, including salts of the active chiral form R(+)-lipoic acid. The water soluble salts of lipoic acid manufactured under this patented process are able to be incorporated into various compositions, including topical formulas, much more easily than other forms of lipoic acid.