ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,947, issued on June 3, was assigned to PORTON PHARMA SOLUTIONS LTD. (Chongqing, China).

"Method for preparing (S)-nicotine by reduction" was invented by Wenqing Lin (Chongqing, China), Hongjie Zheng (Chongqing, China), Xiaobo Liu (Chongqing, China), Zecong Chen (Chongqing, China), Lingyu Li (Chongqing, China), Qingjun Zhou (Chongqing, China), Songhe Wang (Chongqing, China), Yongtang Yue (Chongqing, China), Jicheng Hu (Chongqing, China), Yue Zhang (Chongqing, China) and Shanshan Miao (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing (S)-nicotine by reduction includes conducting a reduction process on an alkene com...