ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,699, issued on April 8, was assigned to Pike Therapeutics Inc. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Transdermal delivery of tetrahydrocannabinol" was invented by Fotios M. Plakogiannis (Whitestone, N.Y.), Tamanna Lather (Jersey City, N.J.), Nisarg Modi (Jersey City, N.J.) and Marina Borovinskaya (East Brunswick, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a transdermal drug delivery system comprising tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Transdermal delivery can provide a drug plasma concentration at predetermined rate for a predetermined period of time with a simplified therapeutic regimen by decreasing dosing frequency for the treatment and/or preventi...