ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,798, issued on June 2, was assigned to Alkermes Pharma Ireland Ltd. (Dublin).
"Aripiprazole prodrug composition" was invented by Philip Cresswell (Athlone, Ireland), Magali Hickey (Westwood, Mass.), Kristopher Perkin (Athlone, Ireland), Greg Smith (Norton, Mass.), Elaine Liversidge (Charlestown, Mass.), Brian Steinberg (Arlington, Mass.), David Manser (Keenagh, Ireland) and Tarek Zeidan (Waltham, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a composition comprising (a) a population of particles of an aripiprazole prodrug having a volume based particle size (Dv50) of less than 1000 nm and (b) at least one surface stabilizer compri...