ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,270, issued on June 24, was assigned to D&D Pharmatech Inc. (Gyunggi-do, South Korea).

"Pharmaceutical composition comprising polypeptide" was invented by Kang Choon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Og Yi Park (Germantown, Md.), Hyoung Tae An (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Eun Ji Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Hee Shin (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Mook Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition including a polypeptide, and more particularly, to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating obesity, diabetes, or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. The pharmaceut...