US Patent Issued to Takeda Pharmaceutical on Sept. 9 for "CNS delivery of therapeutic agents" (Massachusetts, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,210, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"CNS delivery of therapeutic agents" was invented by Pericles Calias (Melrose, Mass.), Jing Pan (Boxborough, Mass.), Jan Powell (Concord, Mass.), Lawrence Charnas (Natick, Mass.), Thomas McCauley (Cambridge, Mass.), Teresa Leah Wright (Lexington, Mass.), Richard Pfeifer (North Granby, Conn.) and Zahra Shahrokh (Weston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an effective and less invasive approach for direct delivery of therapeutic agents to the central nervous system (CNS). In some embodiments, the present invention pr...