US Patent Issued to Shaanxi Huikang Bio-Tech on May 13 for "Engineered pichia strain and a recombinant method of using the same for making a collagen sponge" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,255, issued on May 13, was assigned to Shaanxi Huikang Bio-Tech Co. Ltd. (Xi'an, China).

"Engineered pichia strain and a recombinant method of using the same for making a collagen sponge" was invented by Yue He (Xi'an, China), Jiuna Wang (Xi'an, China) and Jinli Zhao (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a recombinant collagen and a recombinant collagen sponge material. The recombinant collagen comprises: (a) a protein composed of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2; and/or (b) a protein which has the same function as (a) and is derived from (a) by substitution, deletion and/or a...