ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,819, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Vector Vitale IP LLC (North Miami Beach, Fla.).

"Method of preventing or treating viral infections" was invented by Peter Novak (Sunny Isles Beach, Fla.), Maxim Temnikov (Miami) and Oleksandr Balakin (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating or preventing a disease or condition caused (at least in part) by, or related to, a viral infection in a patient, comprising administering to said patient a pharmaceutical composition comprising, in certain embodiments, 64Zn-enriched zinc, at a therapeutically effective or a prophylactically effective dose for treating or ...