ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,660, issued on May 20, was assigned to ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE (Hefei, China) and ANHUI BAICAOJINGYAN PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hefei, China).

"Colchicine hydrogel microneedle and preparation method thereof" was invented by Can Peng (Hefei, China), Huanhuan Liu (Hefei, China), Suping Jiang (Hefei, China), Jiming Ke (Hefei, China), Jing Zhang (Hefei, China), Chijing Zuo (Hefei, China), Cancan Fang (Hefei, China), Shuangying Gui (Hefei, China) and Daiyin Peng (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preparation method of a colchicine (COL) hydrogel microneedle (MN) is provided, including the following steps...