US Patent Issued to ACADEMIA SINICA on Sept. 15 for "Method and composition for treating pain" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,172, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ACADEMIA SINICA (Taiwan).

"Method and composition for treating pain" was invented by Chin-Cheng Chen (Nankang, Taiwan) and Chin-Hsien Hung (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods and compositions for prevention or treatment of pain, e.g., stress-related pain. Also provided is a method for producing a non-human animal model for pain, the non-human animal model produced therefrom, and a method of screening an agent pharmaceutically active in prevention or treatment of pain using such non-human animal model."

The patent was filed on July 10, 2020, under Appli...