US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER on Aug. 5 for "Compositions for treatment of substance use disorder" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,065, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER (Ft. Worth, Texas).

"Compositions for treatment of substance use disorder" was invented by Michael J. Forster (Fort Worth, Texas), Ritu A. Shetty (Fort Worth, Texas), Jacques Nguyen (Fort Worth, Texas) and Liang-Jun Yan (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments are directed to methods of treating or preventing an addictive behavior in a subject, said method comprising administering to said subject an effective amount of a DMTU or a composition comprising same."

The patent was filed on July 17, 2020, under Application No....