US Patent Issued to SUNGEN BIOSCIENCE on Nov. 4 for "Bacillus subtilis natto and method for producing MK-7" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,235, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SUNGEN BIOSCIENCE Co. LTD. (Shantou, China).

"Bacillus subtilis natto and method for producing MK-7" was invented by Jiepeng Chen (Shantou, China), Lili Duan (Shantou, China), Lin Hong (Shantou, China), Yufan Chen (Shantou, China), Hongrui Chen (Shantou, China), Yeyu Ji (Shantou, China), Chunli Cai (Shantou, China), Liusong Hu (Shantou, China) and Zhikai Xu (Shantou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a Bacillus subtilis natto strain ST-1008, deposited under the accession number CGMCC No. 17894. Also provided is a method for producing MK-7. The method comprises: culturing the Bacill...