Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
11 patents granted to the 3 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
11
11 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
2
Against 1 in 2024 and 1 in 2023
Applications published
22
5 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
3
its own name, a former name
By yearGrantedApplications published
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Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Pharmaceuticals5
Biotechnology2
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
18 publishedRHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
11 granted
1 publishedRhythm Metabolic, Inc. a former name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
3 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Apr 29, 2025 | 12,285,460 | Pharmaceutical compositions | Pharmaceuticals | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
| Apr 1, 2025 | 12,263,202 | Method of treating melanocortin-4 receptor pathway-associated disorders | Pharmaceuticals | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
| Sep 3, 2024 | 12,077,612 | Peptide compositions | Pharmaceuticals | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
| Jul 18, 2023 | 11,702,448 | Method of treating melanocortin-4 receptor-associated disorders in heterozygous carriers | Biotechnology | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
| Sep 28, 2021 | 11,129,869 | Pharmaceutical compositions | Pharmaceuticals | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
| Mar 30, 2021 | 10,960,046 | Method of treating melanocortin-4 receptor pathway-associated disorders | Pharmaceuticals | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
| Mar 23, 2021 | 10,954,268 | Method of treating melanocortin-4 receptor-associated disorders in heterozygous carriers | Biotechnology | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
| Dec 8, 2020 | 10,858,399 | Peptide compositions | Pharmaceuticals | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
| Feb 5, 2019 | 10,196,425 | Peptide compositions | Pharmaceuticals | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
| Jan 1, 2019 | 10,167,312 | Method of treating melanocortin-4 receptor-associated disorders in heterozygous carriers | Biotechnology | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Nov 27, 2025 | 2025/0360142 | NOVEL ATP-SENSITIVE POTASSIUM CHANNEL POTENTIATORS, THEIR PREPARATION AND USE | Organic fine chemistry | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
| Jun 19, 2025 | 2025/0195606 | METHOD OF TREATING MELANOCORTIN-4 RECEPTOR PATHWAY-ASSOCIATED DISORDERS | Pharmaceuticals | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
| Jun 12, 2025 | 2025/0188124 | PEPTIDE COMPOSITIONS | Pharmaceuticals | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
| Jun 12, 2025 | 2025/0186536 | SUSTAINED RELEASE PEPTIDE FORMULATIONS | Pharmaceuticals | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
| Mar 13, 2025 | 2025/0082717 | COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING KIDNEY DISEASE | Pharmaceuticals | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
| Jun 13, 2024 | 2024/0190914 | METHOD OF TREATING MELANOCORTIN-4 RECEPTOR-ASSOCIATED DISORDERS IN HETEROZYGOUS CARRIERS | Biotechnology | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
| Feb 22, 2024 | 2024/0058414 | METHODS OF TREATING MELANOCORTIN-4 RECEPTOR PATHWAY-ASSOCIATED DISORDERS | Pharmaceuticals | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
| Jul 21, 2022 | 2022/0226425 | METHOD OF TREATING MELANOCORTIN-4 RECEPTOR PATHWAY-ASSOCIATED DISORDERS | Pharmaceuticals | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
| May 26, 2022 | 2022/0160818 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS | Pharmaceuticals | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. · patent 12,285,460 granted from it |
| Jun 10, 2021 | 2021/0169970 | METHOD OF TREATING MELANOCORTIN-4 RECEPTOR PATHWAY-ASSOCIATED DISORDERS | Pharmaceuticals | RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. · patent 12,263,202 granted from it |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Pharmaceuticals 5 · Biotechnology 1 · Organic fine chemistry 1.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.