ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,498, issued on March 3, was assigned to NINGXIA ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY SCIENCES (Ningxia, China).

"Beta-lactamase inhibitors and their preparation" was invented by Zhixiang Yang (Ningxia, China), Haikang Yang (Ningxia, China), Jinbo Ji (Ningxia, China), Yuanyu Gao (Ningxia, China), Dong Tang (Ningxia, China), Lijuan Zhai (Ningxia, China), Zafar Iqbal (Ningxia, China), Jian Sun (Ningxia, China), Jingwen Ji (Ningxia, China), Yangxiu Mu (Ningxia, China), Lili He (Ningxia, China), Yuanbai Liu (Ningxia, China), Xueqin Ma (Ningxia, China) and Jianqiang Yu (Ningxia, China).

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