ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,081, issued on July 7, was assigned to Qingdao Chenland Health Industry Group Co. Ltd (Qingdao, China) and Chenland Nutritionals Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Traditional CHINESE medicine compound composition with immune bidirectional regulation effect and preparation method and applications thereof" was invented by Shengcan Zou (Qingdao, China), Jiancheng Zong (Qingdao, China), Haiyan Dong (Qingdao, China), Weixia Wang (Qingdao, China), Ning Ding (Qingdao, China), Lei Zong (Qingdao, China), Shanglong Wang (Qingdao, China) and Chaoqi Zhao (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traditional Chinese medicine compound composition with...