ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,732, issued on May 6, was assigned to Dalian University (Dalian, China).

"Method of producing a sialylated N-glycosylated recombinant protein in periplasm of a recombinant Escherichia coli" was invented by Xuejun Hu (Liaoning, China), Yao Ruan (Liaoning, China), Ning Ding (Liaoning, China), Xin Fu (Liaoning, China) and Jing Zhu (Liaoning, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for producing a sialylated N-glycosylated recombinant protein in periplasm of a recombinant Escherichia coli. The sialylated N-glycosylated recombinant protein is produced in the periplasm of a recombinant Escherichia coli strain W311...