ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,283, issued on July 28, was assigned to SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE (Shanghai) and SUZHOU QINGYA QIRUI BIOTECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Jiangsu, China).

"Lignan derivative, preparation method therefor and use thereof" was invented by Jianhua Shen (Shanghai), Zhiyuan Zhu (Jiangsu, China), Xiaomei Li (Shanghai), Kai Wang (Shanghai) and Jia Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present invention are a lignan derivative, a preparation method therefor and the use thereof. The structure of the lignan derivative is as shown in a formula I, wherein in the formula, the definition of each sub...