US Patent Issued to Tarsus Pharmaceuticals on Dec. 23 for "Method of eradicating ticks that attach to humans using lotilaner formulations" (California, Nevada, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,377, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Tarsus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Method of eradicating ticks that attach to humans using lotilaner formulations" was invented by Bobak Robert Azamian (Newport Coast, Calif.), Douglas Michael Ackermann (Reno, Nev.), Christopher Stivers (Lynnfield, Mass.) and Shawn D. Hickok (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods of eradicating ticks that attach to a human subject, thereby preventing potential transmission of vector-borne diseases including Lyme disease, via delivery of one, two, or more systemic doses of a lotilaner anti-parasitic therapeut...