ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,924, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Pharmaceutical composition or health food for treating and/or alleviating nervous diseases" was invented by I-Hong Pan (Zhubei, Taiwan), Wei-Hsuan Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chu-Hsun Lu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Shu-Fang Wen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Hsin-Chieh Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating and/or alleviating nervous diseases is provided. The method for treating and/or alleviating nervous diseases includes: administering an effective amount of a water extract of a plant of Gracilariaceae or a ferm...