ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,708, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ASYMCHEM LIFE SCIENCE (TIANJIN) Co. LTD. (Tianjin, China).

"Lipase mutant and use thereof" was invented by Hao Hong (Morrisville, N.C.), James Gage (Morrisville, N.C.), Yi Xiao (Tianjin, China), Na Zhang (Tianjin, China), Xuecheng Jiao (Tianjin, China), Ru Jia (Tianjin, China), Wenjing Liu (Tianjin, China) and Ye Liu (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a lipase mutant and use thereof. The amino acid sequence of the lipase mutant has a sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, that is, sites at which amino acid mutations occur include a V154L site."

The patent was filed on March 2...