ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,306, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CANSINO BIOLOGICS INC. (Tianjin, China).

"Carrier protein subjected to site-directed mutation and use thereof in preparation of vaccine" was invented by Haomeng Wang (Tianjin, China), Zhihong Yan (Tianjin, China), Qiaoling Yan (Tianjin, China), Juan Shao (Tianjin, China), Jianming Shi (Tianjin, China), Xiuwen Sui (Tianjin, China), Junqiang Li (Tianjin, China) and Tao Zhu (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a protein antigen subjected to site-directed mutation and site-directed modification, and a method for site-directed mutation and site-directed modification of the prote...