US Patent Issued on April 21 for "Telmisartan for the treatment of hypertension in dogs" (Missouri, Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,366, issued on April 21.

"Telmisartan for the treatment of hypertension in dogs" was invented by Anne Michelle Traas (Saint Joseph, Mo.), Amanda Erickson Coleman (Bogart, Ga.), Bianca Natalia Ferreira De Moura Lourenco (Athens, Ga.), Kate Elizabeth Creevy (College Station, Texas) and Scott Alan Brown (Winterville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to telmisartan or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as a medicament for the treatment of hypertension in dogs, wherein the therapeutically effective amount of telmisartan is administered in a daily dosage amount that is varied over a treatment period...