ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,476, issued on May 26, was assigned to Alkermes Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Substituted carbamate macrocyclic compounds and related methods of treatment" was invented by Lewis D. Pennington (Arlington, Mass.), Younggi Choi (Stow, Mass.), Hoan Huynh (Waltham, Mass.), Brian M. Aquila (Marlborough, Mass.), Ingo Andreas Mugge (Waltham, Mass.), Yuan Hu (Waltham, Mass.), James R. Woods (Waltham, Mass.), Brian Kenneth Raymer (Holliston, Mass.), Jorg Martin Bentzien (White Plains, N.Y.), Jonathan Ward Lehmann (Burlington, Mass.) and Michael R. Hale (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides compounds useful for ...