ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,211, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PHARMAIN Corp. (Bothell, Wash.).

"V1A receptor partial agonist and method of use" was invented by Han Jiang (Burlingame, Calif.), Yao Yao (Seattle), Gerardo M. Castillo (Bothell, Wash.), Akiko Nishimoto-Ashfield (Seattle), Christian Ventocilla (San Francisco) and Elijah Bolotin (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides novel V1a partial agonists for partially activating a V1a receptor. The partial V1a agonist has a therapeutic index of at least 20 (e.g., at least 30, at least 40, at least 50, at least 60, at least 70, at least 80, at least 90, at least 100)...