US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER on Feb. 25 for "Methods for treating benzodiazepine misuse/use disorder" (Mississippi Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,070, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER (Jackson, Miss.).

"Methods for treating benzodiazepine misuse/use disorder" was invented by James K. Rowlett (Ridgeland, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are compositions and methods for treating benzodiazepine misuse and/or use disorder. A method of treating benzodiazepine misuse and/or use disorder includes administering to a subject in need thereof of an effective amount of a compound provides both partial modulator and antagonist effects at GABAA receptors."

The patent was filed on June 29, 2021, under Application No. 17/361,754.

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