US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on Feb. 3 for "Anti-psychotic composition and treatment methods" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,323, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Anti-psychotic composition and treatment methods" was invented by Kadiamada N. Chengappa (Pittsburgh) and Dean Francis Salisbury (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of treatment of psychiatric disorders requiring treatment with an antipsychotic drug, such as schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, comprising administration of both the antipsychotic drug and a W. somnifera plant part, extract, chemical constituent(s) thereof, or a derivative thereof to treat symptoms of the ...