ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,280, issued on March 25, was assigned to NEO CREMAR Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Composition for preventing or treating muscular diseases, containing, as active ingredient, Glycyrrhiza uralensis extract or compound isolated therefrom" was invented by Inho Choi (Gyeongsan-si, South Korea), Eun Ju Lee (Daegu, South Korea), So-young Park (Daegu, South Korea), Yong-Ho Lee (Daegu, South Korea), Jin Yeul Ma (Daejeon, South Korea), Won-Kyung Cho (Daegu, South Korea) and Hye Jin Yang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pharmaceutical composition and a health functional food composition for preventing, treating, or impr...