ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,143, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Zhejiang Huakang Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Zhejiang, China).

"System and method for jointly producing erythritol and liquid sorbitol by using corn starch" was invented by Yi Zheng (Quzhou, China), Aijuan Wu (Quzhou, China), Shuncheng Fang (Quzhou, China), Chengjun Liao (Quzhou, China), Lanlan Chen (Quzhou, China), Jiaxing Luo (Quzhou, China), Changhui Hu (Quzhou, China), Fangming Zeng (Quzhou, China) and Mian Li (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system for jointly producing erythritol and liquid sorbitol by using a corn starch, including a liq...