US Patent Issued to KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on March 25 for "Sesquiterpenoid derivative and use thereof in preparing broad-spectrum antiviral drug" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,351, issued on March 25, was assigned to KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Kunming, China).

"Sesquiterpenoid derivative and use thereof in preparing broad-spectrum antiviral drug" was invented by Min Xu (Kunming, China) and Shaoxing Dai (Kunming, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sesquiterpenoid derivative and use thereof in preparing a broad-spectrum antiviral drug provided. The sesquiterpenoid derivative can stimulate heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A2/B1, activate the cell signal pathway of TANK-binding kinase 1-interferon regulatory factor 3, and increase the expression and secretion of endogenous type I...