ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,633, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC (Rahway, N.J.).

"Treatment of migraine" was invented by Mary Ann Johnson (Norristown, Pa.), Leonardo R. Allain (Lansdale, Pa.), W. Mark Eickhoff (Lansdale, Pa.), Craig B. Ikeda (Harleysville, Pa.), Chad D. Brown (Quakertown, Pa.), Francis J. Flanagan Jr. (North Wales, Pa.), Rebecca Nofsinger (Lansdale, Pa.), Melanie J. Marota (Mount Laurel, N.J.), Lisa Lupton (South San Francisco, Calif.), Paresh B. Patel (Langhome, Pa.), Hanmi Xi (Furlong, Pa.) and Wei Xu (West Point, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for the acute treatment of mig...