US Patent Issued to Teikoku Pharma USA on Jan. 20 for "Methods of managing pain using dexmedetomidine transdermal delivery devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,770, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Teikoku Pharma USA Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods of managing pain using dexmedetomidine transdermal delivery devices" was invented by Jutaro Shudo (San Jose, Calif.), Wan-Ning Song (San Jose, Calif.), Rose Marie Gonsalves (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Stephen Shipping Hwang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the invention include methods of managing pain in a subject by applying a transdermal delivery device containing a dexmedetomidine composition formulated to deliver a pain relieving effective amount of dexmedetomidine to a subject. In practicing methods according t...