ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,686, issued on April 15, was assigned to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"NO donor compound, preparation method thereof, pharmaceutical composition comprising same, and use thereof" was invented by Shaohua Gou (Nanjing, China) and Wanxiang Yang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is NO donor compound and preparation method, pharmaceutical composition, and use. The compound has a structure represented by formula The NO donor compound and the pharmaceutical composition thereof, as hypoxia-activated NO donors, may be prepared as drugs for treating myocardial hypoxic damage disease. The prepared drugs can exert...