ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,325, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sichuan Honghe Biotechnology Co. Ltd. (China).

"Blumea balsamifera monoterpene synthase BBTPS3 and related biological materials thereof and use thereof" was invented by Luqi Huang (Beijing), Ping Su (Beijing), Rui Ma (Beijing), Wei Gao (Beijing), Guanghong Cui (Beijing), Baolong Jin (Beijing), Yating Hu (Beijing), Jichen Bao (Beijing) and Juan Guo (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a Blumea balsamifera monoterpene synthase BbTPS3 and related biological materials thereof and use thereof. BbTPS3 is: A1) a protein having the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2; A2) a fusi...