US Patent Issued to VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS on Oct. 14 for "Esters and carbamates as modulators of sodium channels" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,481, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS Inc. (Boston).

"Esters and carbamates as modulators of sodium channels" was invented by Stephen Andrew Thomson (Del Mar, Calif.), Nadia Ahmad (Didcot, Great Britain), Corey Anderson (Brighton, Mass.), Vijayalaksmi Arumugam (San Marcos, Calif.), Iuliana Luci Asgian (San Diego), Joanne Louise Camp (Didcot, Great Britain), Lev Tyler Dewey Fanning (San Marcos, Calif.), Sara Sabina Hadida Ruah (La Jolia, Calif.), Dennis Hurley (San Marcos, Calif.), Yvonne Schmidt (San Diego), David Shaw (Oxford, Great Britain), Urvi Patel (San Diego) and Lidio Marx Carvalho Meireles (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released...