US Patent Issued to University of Rochester, University of Copenhagen on Aug. 18 for "Methods of treating schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,608, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to University of Rochester (Rochester, N.Y.) and University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen K, Denmark).

"Methods of treating schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders" was invented by Steven A. Goldman (Webster, N.Y.), Zhengshan Liu (Rochester, N.Y.) and Mikhail Osipovitch (Frederiksberg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to methods of restoring glial cell K+ uptake in a subject. This method involves selecting a subject having impaired glial cell K+ uptake, and administering, to the selected subject, a RE1-Silencing Transcription factor (REST) inhibitor ...