US Patent Issued to SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY on Feb. 10 for "Compound for treating and/or preventing diseases caused by coronavirus and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,388, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Compound for treating and/or preventing diseases caused by coronavirus and use thereof" was invented by Haitao Yang (Shanghai), Zhenming Jin (Shanghai), Xiaoyu Du (Shanghai), Yinkai Duan (Shanghai), Yao Zhao (Shanghai), Xiuna Yang (Shanghai) and Zihe Rao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is compound YM155, tanshinone I or cryptotanshinone, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a solvate thereof, a solvate of the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a crystal form thereof, for treating and/or preventing diseases caused by cor...