ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,410, issued on May 26, was assigned to University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Ky.).

"Vesicular monoamine transporter-2 ligands and their use in the treatment of psychostimulant abuse" was invented by Linda P. Dwoskin (Lexington, Ky.), David Watt (Lexington, Ky.), Jon Thorson (Lexington, Ky.), Mark Leggas (Lexington, Ky.), Rodney Kip Guy (Lexington, Ky.), Jared Hammill (Lexington, Ky.), Stefan Kwiatkowski (Lexington, Ky.), Derong Ding (Lexington, Ky.), Guangrong Zheng (Gainesville, Fla.), Peter Anthony Crooks (Little Rock, Ark.) and Na-Ra Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention re...