US Patent Issued to ZEIN BIOTECHNOLOGY on Oct. 28 for "Use of biological enzyme for preparing orlistat intermediate, and preparation method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,708, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ZEIN BIOTECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chongqing, China).

"Use of biological enzyme for preparing orlistat intermediate, and preparation method" was invented by Tianshuai Xu (Chongqing, China), Dayong Gong (Chongqing, China), Yumei Xiao (Chongqing, China), Zhanghong Wang (Chongqing, China), Zhichuan Huang (Chongqing, China), Shan Huang (Chongqing, China), Lei Zhang (Chongqing, China), Xin Gao (Chongqing, China) and Junwei Shen (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for biosynthesis of (R)-Beta-hydroxytetradecanoate compounds. The method comprises the following steps of: rea...