ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,360, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea) and INSTITUT PASTEUR KOREA (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating coronavirus disease-19" was invented by Sang Yup Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Woo Dae Jang (Daejeon, South Korea), Seungtaek Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Sangeun Jeon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating coronavirus disease 2019, and more specifically to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or t...