ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,941, issued on June 3, was assigned to Jiangnan University (Wuxi, China).

"Thermophilic recombinant type II pullulanase and application thereof" was invented by Zhemin Zhou (Wuxi, China), Li Zhou (Wuxi, China), Ting Xie (Wuxi, China), Wenjing Cui (Wuxi, China), Zhongmei Liu (Wuxi, China) and Bo Pang (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a thermophilic recombinant type II pullulanase and the application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of genetic engineering. The present disclosure obtains a thermophilic recombinant type II pullulanase by heterologously expressing type II pullulanase in...