ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,941, issued on May 12, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Anticoccidial composition comprising ginkgo leaves and use thereof" was invented by Kyuyeol Son (Seoul, South Korea), Min Ah Park (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung Min Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hwi-Jea Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to an anticoccidial composition comprising ginkgo leaves and use thereof. The composition comprising ginkgo leaves, according to an embodiment, has excellent effects of directly killing sporozoites that can induce coccidiosis, inhibiting the penetration of the sporozoites ...