US Patent Issued to Purdue Pharma on July 29 for "Treatment and prevention of sleep disorders" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,191, issued on July 29, was assigned to Purdue Pharma LP (Stamford, Conn.).

"Treatment and prevention of sleep disorders" was invented by Stephen C. Harris (Weston, Conn.), Ram P. Kapil (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Donald J. Kyle (Yardley, Pa.) and Garth Whiteside (Yardley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to methods for treating or preventing a sleep disorder by administering a compound of Formula (1)(1), or a compound of formula (1A), (1B), (1C), (1D), (1E), or (1F) to an animal in need of such treatment. In certain embodiments, such compounds effectively treat or prevent a sleep disorder in the animal, whil...