ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,482, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to HANGZHOU ZHONGMEIHUADONG PHARMACEUTICAL Co. LTD (Zhejiang, China).
"Method for extracting mupirocin" was invented by Zhaobing Cheng (Hangzhou, China), Guanghui Kou (Hangzhou, China), Yiming Xu (Hangzhou, China), Kai Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Yuchen Zhang (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extracting mupirocin. The main steps thereof comprise: resin adsorption, desorption and concentration, multi-step extraction, and dehydration and decoloration, wherein the multi-step extraction comprises at least one ester solvent extraction and at least one alkaline water extractio...