ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,615, issued on March 3, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).
"Treatment method for cardiac hypertrophy" was invented by Lubna Ibrahim A. Alasoom (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing pathological cardiac hypertrophy and/or inducing physiological cardiac hypertrophy by administering Nigella sativa or an extract thereof to a subject in need thereof, especially to an athletic subject in order to reduce exercise-induced pathological cardiac hypertrophy. A composition comprising Nigella sativa for use in said method."
The patent was filed on Dec. 19, 2023, und...