US Patent Issued to Vertex Pharmaceuticals on Oct. 14 for "Materials and methods for treatment of pain related disorders" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,020, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Boston).

"Materials and methods for treatment of pain related disorders" was invented by Ante Sven Lundberg (Cambridge, Mass.), Samarth Kulkarni (Cambridge, Mass.), Lawrence Klein (Cambridge, Mass.) and Hari Kumar Padmanabhan (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides materials and methods for treating a patient with one or more conditions associated with SCN9A whether ex vivo or in vivo. In addition, the present application provides materials and methods for editing and/or modulating the expression of SCN9A gene in a cell by g...