ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,692, issued on April 15, was assigned to ZHEJIANG NHU COMPANY LTD. (Zhejiang, China), SHANGYU NHU BIO-CHEM Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China), ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Zhejiang, China) and ZHEJIANG NHU PHARMACEUTICAL Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Method for preparing sodium taurate as taurine intermediate, and method for preparing taurine" was invented by Zhirong Chen (Zhejiang, China), Xianghua Yao (Zhejiang, China), Junhua Peng (Zhejiang, China), Yingxia Pan (Zhejiang, China), Xiaoxiang He (Zhejiang, China), Songhua Xu (Zhejiang, China), Xiaodong Wu (Zhejiang, China) and Xiang Fang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for pre...