ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,320, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SeeCure Taiwan Co. Ltd. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Drug conjugate, pharmaceutical composition and method of treating hepatitis" was invented by Wuu-Jyh Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Min-Ching Chung (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chi-Shiang Ke (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Ya-Chen Tseng (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chin-Yu Liang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Yen-Chun Lee (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Hsin-Jou Li (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Tai-Yun Huang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Nai-Chen Hsueh (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Yan-Feng Jiang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug conjugate includes a structure shown by the following formula: Z-(linker-[...