US Patent Issued to Serleva on July 1 for "Compositions and methods for treating severe constipation" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,334, issued on July 1, was assigned to Serleva Inc. (Short Hills, N.J.).

"Compositions and methods for treating severe constipation" was invented by Brian K. Hubbard (Boxford, Mass.) and Michael H. Serrano-Wu (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods related to treating or preventing gastrointestinal dysfunction in a subject in need thereof, which include the use of a diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 1 (DGAT1) inhibitor. The disclosure also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a DGAT1 inhibitor, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or esters thereof, useful for the treatments des...