ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,928, issued on May 20, was assigned to ANIPHA TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD (Toorak Gardens, Australia).

"Application of acylated derivative of amino acid in preparation of animal feed additive" was invented by Xianfeng Peng (Guangzhou, China) and Huacheng Huang (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an acylated derivative of an amino acid for use in preparing an animal feed additive. The acylated derivative of the amino acid or a racemate, stereoisomer, a geometric isomer, a tautomer, a solvate, and a feed-acceptable salt thereof of the present invention has a structure represented by formula (I).The ...