ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,249, issued on July 8, was assigned to NANJING BIOSERICA ERA ANTIMICROBIAL MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY GROUP Co. LTD. (Nanjing, China) and NANJING YUANJIAN BIOTECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Nanjing, China).

"Efficient anti-bacterial hydroxy acid ester oligomer" was invented by Xuejun Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Guomin Zhou (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An efficient anti-bacterial hydroxy acid ester oligomer of the present invention has a general structural formula (I). Starting from the design of molecular structure, the present invention rationally designs the end group and chain length structure of the substance of formula (I), and ...