** Better Therapeutics BTTX.O shares rise 4.6% to $1.79
premarket
** Co receives its first U.S. patent, which provides twenty
years of exclusivity for number of key features core to BTTX's
digital therapeutics platform to help treat cardiometabolic
diseases (https://refini.tv/3aDDWcl)
** Exclusivity will run until at least Sept 2039
** BTTX says it remains on track to file submission to FDA
for its experimental type 2 diabetes treatment, BT-001,
following completion of pivotal trial this month
** Stock down ~63% this year, as of last close
(Reporting by Mrinalika Roy in Bengaluru)
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