ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,704, issued on April 15, was assigned to Chang Gung University of Science and Technology (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"9,11-secosteroids and the use of 9,11-secosteroids in preparing pharmaceutical compositions for inhibiting inflammation" was invented by Tsong-Long Hwang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yu-Chia Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Kuei-Hung Lai (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for inhibiting inflammatory in a subject is provided, comprising: administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising an effective amount of 9,11-secosteroids."

The patent was filed on April 28, 2021, under Application No. 17/242,317.

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