US Patent Issued to ASYMCHEM LABORATORIES (FUXIN) on Sept. 29 for "Ketoreductase mutant and method for producing chiral alcohol" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,460, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to ASYMCHEM LABORATORIES (FUXIN) Co. LTD. (Fuxin, China).

"Ketoreductase mutant and method for producing chiral alcohol" was invented by Hao Hong (Morrisville, N.C.), Gage James (Morrisville, N.C.), Yi Xiao (Tianjin, China), Na Zhang (Tianjin, China), Xuecheng Jiao (Tianjin, China), Kejian Zhang (Tianjin, China), Yiming Yang (Tianjin, China), Xiang Wang (Tianjin, China) and Yanqing Zhang (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a ketoreductase mutant and a method for producing a chiral alcohol. The ketoreductase mutant has an amino acid sequence obtained by the mutation of th...