US Patent Issued to NOVMETAPHARMA, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R & DB FOUNDATION on July 14 for "Use of Cyclo-HisPro (CHP) for lowering blood pressure" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,437, issued on July 14, was assigned to NOVMETAPHARMA Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea), SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL (Seoul, South Korea) and SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R & DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Use of Cyclo-HisPro (CHP) for lowering blood pressure" was invented by Hoe Yune Jung (Pohang-si, South Korea), Heon Jong Lee (Incheon, South Korea), Yon Su Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Hee Yang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "New uses of Cyclo-HisPro (CHP) or a salt thereof for lowering blood pressure are disclosed. More specifically, the present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for l...