US Patent Issued to Merz Pharmaceuticals on Nov. 4 for "Methods for providing rapid relief of motor fluctuations in a Parkinson's disease patient" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,615, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Merz Pharmaceuticals LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Methods for providing rapid relief of motor fluctuations in a Parkinson's disease patient" was invented by Richard P. Batycky (Newton, Mass.), Michael M. Lipp (Framingham, Mass.) and Martin Freed (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods of providing rapid relief of motor fluctuations in a Parkinson's disease patient. The methods of the invention comprise pulmonary administration of levodopa by inhalation at therapeutically effective concentrations such that the patient's plasma levodopa concentration increas...