ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,844, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Praxis Precision Medicines Inc. (Boston).

"Ion channel modulators" was invented by Kiran Reddy (Boston), Gabriel Martinez Botella (Wayland, Mass.), Andrew Mark Griffin (L'lle Bizard, Canada) and Brian Edward Marron (Ada, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to, in part, fused heteroaryl compounds and compositions useful for preventing and/or treating a disease or condition relating to aberrant function of a voltage-gated, sodium ion channel, for example, abnormal late/persistent sodium current. Methods of treating a disease or condition relating to aberrant fun...