ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,186, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Fornia Biosolutions Inc. (Hayward, Calif.).

"Second additional phytase variants and methods" was invented by Jie Yang (Foster City, Calif.), Xiyun Zhang (San Ramon, Calif.), Yangyuan Li (Guangdong, China) and Jiang Huang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to variant phytase enzymes and their use thereof."

The patent was filed on Feb. 9, 2022, under Application No. 17/668,360.

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