ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,738, issued on July 21, was assigned to CARBOEXPERT INC. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Inotodiol as agonist of liver x receptors, and use thereof" was invented by Chang Kyu Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), So Young Ban (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyubeen Park (Sejong, South Korea), Nan Young Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyunah Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Wonhee Lee (Sejong, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to inotodiol as a liver X receptor agonist and use thereof for the treatment of a liver X receptor-mediated disease. Inotodiol according to an aspect, or a prodrug thereof has LXRBeta-specific agonist ...