ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,085, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SHAN DONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).

"1,3/1,4-xylanase MLX1034, its gene and applications thereof" was invented by Yuzhong Zhang (Jinan, China), Fang Zhao (Jinan, China), Xiulan Chen (Jinan, China), Haining Sun (Jinan, China), Xiaoyan Song (Jinan, China) and Pingyi Li (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "MLX1034 is from Polaribacter sp. Q13, and has the amino acid sequence of the 1,3/1,4-xylanase MLX1034 is listed in SEQ ID NO.1; a nucleotide sequence of the gene is listed in SEQ ID NO.2; the 1,3/1,4-xylanase MLX1034 in the invention is capable of efficiently and specifically degrading ...