ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,855, issued on April 21, was assigned to Fujian Ribio Technology Co. Ltd. (Sanming City, China).

"Method for synthesizing beta-nicotinamide mononucleotide and intermediate thereof" was invented by Yonghong Yuan (Tianjin, China), Qi Pan (Tianjin, China), Xiaoxue Guo (Tianjin, China) and Xusheng Zhao (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a synthesis method of Beta-nicotinamide mononucleotide (Beta-NMN) and an intermediate thereof. In the present disclosure, phospholipid metabolism enzymes phospholipase D (PLD) and phospholipase C (PLC) widely present in the biosphere are used as catalysts to ...