ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,430, issued on June 24, was assigned to Northwest A&F University Shenzhen Research Inst (Shenzhen, China).

"Filamentous fungus and use thereof in gas metabolism" was invented by Yiqing Yao (Shenzhen, China) and Caiyun Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a filamentous fungus and use thereof in gas metabolism, which belongs to the technical field of microorganisms. The filamentous fungus is an Aspergillus cejpii strain S8 deposited in the China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC), No. 3, No. 1, West Beichen Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing on Sep. 20, 2023, with a deposit number of CG...