ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,584, issued on June 30, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, BEIJING (Beijing).

"Adenosine analog and its use in regulating the circadian clock" was invented by Erquan Zhang (Beijing), Xiangbing Qi (Beijing), Dapeng Ju (Beijing), Zhiqiang Wang (Beijing), Qingcui Wu (Beijing), Haijiao Zhao (Beijing) and Long Mei (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a kind of nucleoside analogue compounds, and a composition comprising the compound and pentostatin, their use for modulating circadian rhythm, preferably, for shifting circadian phase, and methods for modulating circadian rhythm, prefe...