US Patent Issued to Harmony Biosciences Management on Feb. 4 for "Treatment of autism with cannabidiol" (Pennsylvania, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,951, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Harmony Biosciences Management Inc. (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.).

"Treatment of autism with cannabidiol" was invented by Terri Sebree (Gladwyne, Pa.), Marcel Bonn-Miller (Lexington, N.C.) and Donna Gutterman (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a method of treating one or more behavioral symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in a subject by transdermally administering an effective amount of cannabidiol (CBD) to the subject wherein one or more behavioral symptoms of ASD are treated in the subject."

The patent was filed on March 21, 2023, under Applicatio...