ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,272, issued on May 26, was assigned to ARJIL BIOTECH HOLDING COMPANY Ltd. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).
"Method and composition for inhibiting virus infection" was invented by Yeh B. Wu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Jir-Mehng Lo (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Hui Ju Liang (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Cheng Huang (Taipei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to a compound, particularly ovatodiolide, for use in preventing or treating an infection of a virus, including a hepatitis virus, an influenza virus, a herpes simplex virus, an enterovirus, a rotavirus, a dengue virus, a poxvirus, a human immunodeficiency virus, an a...