ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,083, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Boston).

"Pharmaceutical composition and administrations thereof" was invented by Eleni Dokou (Cambridge, Mass.), Shahla Jamzad (Belmont, Mass.), John P. Caesar Jr. (Lancaster, Mass.), Majed Fawaz (Foxboro, Mass.), Laura Das (Charlestown, Mass.), Chong-Hui Gu (Waban, Mass.), Patricia Nell Hurter (Harvard, Mass.), Meghna Jai Israni (Boston), Meghan M. Johnston (Wakefield, Mass.), Dragutin Knezic (Watertown, Mass.), Andrew G. Kuzmission (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and HongRen Wang (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to pharmaceutical c...