ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,191, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to WUHAN YICHENG BIOTECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"Topical application of polypeptide in the treatment of skin damage" was invented by Xianmin Xia (Wuhan, China), Xiang Sun (Wuhan, China), Chaoxing Li (Wuhan, China), Jie Gao (Wuhan, China) and Xiuli Kuang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a polypeptide for topical treatment on skin damages resulting from various causes such as burns, wounds or cuts. The polypeptide topical drugs in different dosage forms have good therapeutic effect on scald models and trauma models of animals with little toxic and side eff...