ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,588, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ZHEJIANG YONGTAI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China), ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Zhejiang, China) and ZHEJIANG YONGTAI PHARMACEUTICAL Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Transaminase mutant and application thereof in preparation of sitagliptin intermediates" was invented by Zhiqiang Liu (Zhejiang, China), Feng Cheng (Zhejiang, China), Xiaojian Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Dongxu Jia (Zhejiang, China), Yuguo Zheng (Zhejiang, China), Renbao He (Zhejiang, China), Yizhong Jin (Zhejiang, China), Hongming Shao (Zhejiang, China), Jiaohua Lin (Zhejiang, China) and Feng Zhang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & T...