ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,367, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Washington).
"Method of treatment of schizophrenia" was invented by Sandra Smieszek (Cleveland) and Mihael H. Polymeropoulos (Potomac, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates generally to improvements in the treatment of psychotic symptoms, and more particularly, to improvements in the identification of an individual or a population of individuals for whom treatment with iloperidone, an iloperidone metabolite, or pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof may provide a particular benefit in treating an individual's psychotic symptoms based on the indi...