US Patent Issued to VANDA PHARMACEUTICALS on Sept. 30 for "Method of improving sleep" (Maryland, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,132, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to VANDA PHARMACEUTICALS INC. (Washington).

"Method of improving sleep" was invented by Mihael Polymeropoulos (Potomac, Md.) and Sandra Smieszek (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods of improving sleep in a patient having a variant of the cryptochrome circadian clock 1 (CRY1) genotype associated with a circadian rhythm sleep disorder (CRSD) Delayed Sleep Wake Phase Disorder (DSWPD)."

The patent was filed on Aug. 16, 2022, under Application No. 17/820,025.

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