US Patent Issued to China Medical University on Feb. 17 for "Herbal compositions and methods for treating and preventing SARS-CoV-2 virus infection" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,522, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to China Medical University (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Herbal compositions and methods for treating and preventing SARS-CoV-2 virus infection" was invented by Mien-Chie Hung (Taichung, Taiwan), Long-Bin Jeng (Taichung, Taiwan), Sheng-Teng Huang (Taichung, Taiwan), Wei-Jan Wang (Taichung, Taiwan), Hsiao-Fan Chen (Taichung, Taiwan), Wei-Te Huang (Taichung, Taiwan) and Shi-Chen Ou (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention discloses a herbal composition for treating or preventing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), including the wild type and its different var...