ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,260, issued on March 17, was assigned to SHENZHEN CHIPSCREEN BIOSCIENCES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Biphenyl compound as immunomodulator, preparation method therefor and application thereof" was invented by Qianjiao Yang (Shenzhen, China), Song Shan (Shenzhen, China), Lijun Xin (Shenzhen, China), Desi Pan (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoliang Wang (Shenzhen, China), Yonglian Song (Shenzhen, China), Yu Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Huiyun Huang (Shenzhen, China), Qi Wei (Shenzhen, China), Zhibin Li (Shenzhen, China) and Xianping Lu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure also relates to a pharmaceutical composition...