ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,390, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to China Agricultural University (Beijing).

"Compound with Alpha-glucosidase inhibitory activity and application thereof" was invented by Ran Wang (Beijing), Fengyu Guo (Beijing), Pengjie Wang (Beijing), Ping Liu (Beijing), Weibo Zhang (Beijing), Chong Chen (Beijing), Fazheng Ren (Beijing), Siyuan Liu (Beijing), Bing Fang (Beijing) and Yixuan Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention belongs to the technical field of chemical drugs, and specifically to a compound with a-glucosidase inhibitory activity and application thereof. 5-hydroxymethyl-8-methyl-2-(N-arylamino)-pyrano[2...