ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,678, issued on March 24, was assigned to Hsuan-Ching Tseng (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for treating pleural effusion" was invented by Kun-Cheng Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Hsuan-Ching Tseng (New Taipei, Taiwan), Tsai-Wang Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Ming-Chin Ku (Taipei, Taiwan), Tzu-Li Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chen-Yu Lee (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating pleural effusion includes: administering a Chinese medicine composition to a subject in need thereof; wherein, the Chinese medicine composition is an extract of a first mixture comprising Poria, Polyporus, Rhizoma Alismatis, Atractylodis Rhizoma, Pim...