ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,724, issued on April 14, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE (Nanjing, China) and CHINA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Indole alkaloid and preparation method and use thereof" was invented by Xu Shen (Nanjing, China), Sheng Jiang (Nanjing, China), Kuojun Zhang (Nanjing, China), Jiaying Wang (Nanjing, China), He Tang (Nanjing, China), Yujie Huang (Nanjing, China), Tong Zhao (Nanjing, China) and Minyi Qian (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound represented by formula (I) and a preparation method thereof, and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a metabolic precursor thereof, a ...