ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,481, issued on May 20, 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 patients with Parkinson's disease, primary parkinsonism/idiopathic parkinsonism, post-encephalitic parkinsonism, parkinsonism that may follow carbon monoxide intoxication, or parkinsonism that may follow manganese intoxication and provides an improvement of a patient's total post-dose "On" time or "Good On" time compared to post-do...