ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,472, issued on March 3, was assigned to HUBEI GRAND LIFE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hubei, China).

"System and method for efficiently preparing taurine continuously" was invented by Huajun Sun (Hubei, China), Min Tan (Hubei, China), Xiaojing Yan (Hubei, China), Ruyong Jiang (Hubei, China), Hongbo Peng (Hubei, China), Jiale Tang (Hubei, China), Chen Guo (Hubei, China), Xingxing Wang (Hubei, China) and Zhiqiang Qian (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for continuously and efficiently preparing taurine, including: (a) bringing an ethylene oxide with an alkali metal bisulfite into a...