ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,675, issued on July 22, was assigned to RISEN (SUZHOU) PHARMA TECH Co. LTD. (Suzhou, China) and SHANGHAI JUNSHI BIOSCIENCES Co. LTD (Shanghai).

"Stable heavy isotopes in amide functional groups and uses thereof" was invented by Jiasheng Lu (Shanghai), Jiamin Gu (Suzhou, China), Xiang Ji (Suzhou, China), Dongqing Zhu (Suzhou, China), Xiaolin He (Suzhou, China) and Xianqi Kong (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided isotope-enriched compounds containing stable heavy isotope-enriched amide functional groups for modulating the pharmacokinetic profile, metabolic profile, and/or delivery efficiency of...