ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,163, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC (Bridgewater, N.J.).
"Levodopa dosing regimen" was invented by Richard D'Souza (Morristown, N.J.), Hester Visser (Neshanic Station, N.J.) and Suneel Gupta (Hayward, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is a method for treating levodopa naive patients with Parkinson's disease by orally administering a controlled release levodopa formulation twice a day to the levodopa naive patient and the method provides an improvement of a patient's motor state as determined by patient's Parkinson's disease diary, provides a reduction of from about 10%-40% in the patie...