ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,177, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ACADEMIA SINICA (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Use of Crassocephalum rabens extract in the prevention and/or treatment of fatigue and/or depression" was invented by Lie-Fen Shyur (Taipei, Taiwan), Yu-Chuan Liang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yu-Hsin Chen (Taichung City, Taiwan), Chuan-Ju Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Meng-Ting Chang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Chung-Chih Yang (Xihu Township, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for preventing and/or treating fatigue and/or depression in a subject in need of such prevention and/or treatment, comprising administering to s...