US Patent Issued to INDUSTRY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION CHOSUN UNIVERSITY on July 29 for "Pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating metabolic diseases" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,152, issued on July 29, was assigned to INDUSTRY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION CHOSUN UNIVERSITY (Gwangju, South Korea).

"Pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating metabolic diseases" was invented by Gwang Won Cho (Gwangju, South Korea) and Nagarajan Maharajan (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preventing or treating metabolic diseases includes administering a composition including a compound represented by Formula 1 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to a subject in need thereof. Thereby, it is possible to inhibit increases in body weight and liver fat weight due to a high-calo...