ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,608, issued on July 28, was assigned to SHENZHEN FIRST UNION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen City, China) and SHENZHEN HERUI BIOTECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen City, China).

"Arecoline salt and preparation method and product thereof" was invented by Jin Lu (Shenzhen, China), Guofeng Fu (Shenzhen, China), Ming Chu (Shenzhen, China), Xing Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Wenwen Huang (Shenzhen, China), Zhongli Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Yonghai Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides an arecoline salt and a preparation method and a product thereof. The arecoline salt is a benzoate of arecoline, with a structural f...