ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,625, issued on May 27, was assigned to DALIAN UNIVERSITY (Dalian, China).

"Engineering strain producing cordycepin and its derivative 3'-deoxyinosine, its preparation method and application" was invented by Qian Li (Dalian, China), Huiping Tan (Dalian, China), Baomin Feng (Dalian, China), Xiuping Li (Dalian, China), Liang Wang (Dalian, China), Yanghao Cheng (Dalian, China), Xiang Li (Dalian, China), Dapeng Wei (Dalian, China), Tuo Kan (Dalian, China), Chenyang Li (Dalian, China) and Rongshuai Jiang (Dalian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of genetic engineering and process engineering, ...