ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,114, issued on April 22, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES (Beijing).

"Extraction of plant source "medicinal soup" and manual preparation of "herbal medicine" and related products" was invented by Chengyu Jiang (Beijing), Xiaoyun Li (Beijing), Jianchao Du (Beijing), Zhu Liang (Beijing), Zhiqing Wang (Beijing) and Chenxuan Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for preparing bencaosome comprising the steps of: mixing one or more lipid components with any one or more of the following: nucleic acid, compound and macromolecules, and treating the obtained mixture by heating. Also provided is a m...