ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,316, issued on April 7, was assigned to National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Ministry of Health and Welfare (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Plant composition, traditional Chinese medicine composition and use thereof" was invented by Yi-Chang Su (Taipei City, Taiwan), Wen-Hui Chiou (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yuh-Chiang Shen (Taipei City, Taiwan), Wen-Chi Wei (Taipei City, Taiwan), Keng-Chang Tsai (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chia-Ching Liao (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yu-Hwei Tseng (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chun-Tang Chiou (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yu-Chi Lin (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Li-Hsiang Wang (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "...