ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,136, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Kunming, China).

"Use of (5R,7R,10R)-12,15-dioxo-Alpha-selinene in the preparation of drugs" was invented by Yuehu Wang (Kunming, China), Jifeng Luo (Kunming, China), Qian He (Kunming, China), Lu Zhang (Kunming, China), Shuya Wei (Kunming, China) and Mengyuan Xia (Kunming, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "(5R,7R,10R)-12,15-dioxo-Alpha-selinene (PFC-37) is used in the preparation of a drug for preventing and treating a neurodegenerative disease and Parkinson's disease."

The patent was filed on June 1, 2021, under Application No. 17/7...