ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,906, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SHANXI JINBO BIO-PHARMACEUTICAL Co. LTD. (Taiyuan, China).

"Collagen and use thereof" was invented by Xia Yang (Shanxi, China), Xiaobin Lan (Shanxi, China), Lingling Wang (Shanxi, China), Yongjian Zhang (Shanxi, China), Xin Liu (Shanxi, China), Zengyao Liu (Shanxi, China) and Wenfei Yang (Shanxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is collagen and uses thereof. Collagen includes an N-terminal sequence and a C-terminal sequence, wherein the N-terminal sequence includes one or more repeating units, and the repeating unit includes an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO. 15. The recomb...