ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,116, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY (Suzhou, China).

"Use of lncRNA XR_595534.2 in preparation of medicine for treatment or prevention of chronic pain" was invented by Jin Tao (Suzhou, China), Renfei Qi (Suzhou, China), Yuan Zhang (Suzhou, China), Yufang Sun (Suzhou, China), Shun Tang (Suzhou, China) and Xinghong Jiang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides use of lncRNA XR_595534.2 in the preparation of a medicine for the treatment or prevention of chronic pain. In the present invention, trigeminal neuralgia induced by chronic constriction injury of infraorbital nerve in r...