ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,275, issued on May 26, was assigned to SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Shanghai).

"Pharmaceutical use of ketoamide-based compound" was invented by Hong Liu (Shanghai), Jian Li (Shanghai), Jingjing Peng (Shanghai), Xiong Xie (Shanghai), Wenhao Dai (Shanghai), Shulei Hu (Shanghai), Chunpu Li (Shanghai), Leike Zhang (Hubei, China), Zhenming Jin (Shanghai), Yechun Xu (Shanghai), Gengfu Xiao (Hubei, China), Haitao Yang (Shanghai), Fang Bai (Shanghai), Xi Cheng (Shanghai), Hualiang Jiang (Shanghai) and Kaixian Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A class of ketoamide-based compounds, in particular...