ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, April 30 -- MSD R&D (CHINA) CO. LTD., Shanghai, China has been assigned a patent (No. US 11970479 B2, initially filed Oct. 24, 2019) developed by seventeen inventors John J. Acton, III, Cranford, New Jersey; Melissa Egbertson, Ambler, Pennsylvania; Xiaolei Gao, Bridgewater, New Jersey; Scott T. Harrison, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; Timothy J. Henderson, Natick, Massachusetts; Michael Man-Chu Lo, Bedminster, New Jersey; Robert D. Mazzola, Jr., Stewartsville, Pennsylvania; Zha . . .