ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,355, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Tianjin, China).

"Use of monascinol in preparation of fat-reducing product" was invented by Mianhua Chen (Tianjin, China), Lu Wang (Tianjin, China), Yan Zhang (Tianjin, China), Xiaolu Wang (Tianjin, China) and Yurong Wang (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides use of Monascinol in preparation of a fat-reducing product, a method for preventing or treating a disease related to abnormal lipid metabolism, and a fat-reducing product including Monascinol. The fat-reducing product includes a fat-reducing functional ...