ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,562, issued on June 30, was assigned to Vima Therapeutics Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Therapeutic methods and compositions for treating movement disorders" was invented by Bernard Mayer Ravina (Cambridge, Mass.), Maria G. Beconi-Barker (Cambridge, Mass.), Judith Dunn (Cambridge, Mass.) and Mark Rogge (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides therapeutic methods, pharmaceutical compositions, and unit dose formulations for treating movement disorders, such as using a muscarinic acetylcholine receptor inhibitor in combination with a muscarinic acetylcholine receptor activator to treat dystonia. In some aspect...