ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,413, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ASYMCHEM LABORATORIES (TIANJIN) Co. LTD. (Tianjin, China).

"Transaminase mutant and use thereof" was invented by Hao Hong (Morrisville, N.C.), Gage James (Morrisville, N.C.), Yi Xiao (Tianjin, China), Yulei Ma (Tianjin, China), Na Zhang (Tianjin, China), Xuecheng Jiao (Tianjin, China), Huiyan Mu (Tianjin, China), Yibing Cheng (Tianjin, China) and Shan Cao (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a transaminase mutant and use thereof. The transaminase mutant has an amino acid sequence obtained by mutation of an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:1, the mutation at least i...