US Patent Issued to Alkermes Pharma Ireland on March 25 for "Methods for treating depressive symptoms" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,249, issued on March 25, was assigned to Alkermes Pharma Ireland Ltd. (Dublin).

"Methods for treating depressive symptoms" was invented by Laura Cook Blumberg (Lincoln, Mass.), Daniel R. Deaver (Franklin, Mass.), David J. Eyerman (Wayland, Mass.) and Thomas Andrew Wynn (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates methods for treating a depressive symptom comprising administering an effective amount of a Mu opioid receptor agonist or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to a subject in need thereof. Non-limiting examples of such agonist include the compounds of Formulas I, II, III, and IV, as...