ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,131, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Pike Therapeutics USA Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Transdermal delivery of dronabinol" 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 dronabinol. The dronabinol transdermal delivery system provides a drug plasma concentration at predetermined rate for a predetermined period of time, offering a simplified therapeutic regimen by decreasing dosing frequency for the treatment and/or preven...