ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,465, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to INDUSTRY FOUNDATION OF CHONNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (Gwangju, South Korea).

"Method of preparing circular permutation-based functional recombinant human-derived fibroblast growth factor 7 and use thereof" was invented by Geun-Joong Kim (Gwangju, South Korea), Hye-Ji Choi (Hwasun-eup, South Korea), Dae-Eun Cheong (Gwangju, South Korea), Su-Kyoung Yoo (Gwangju, South Korea) and Hanui Lee (Jeongeup-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of preparing a circular permutation (CP)-based functional recombinant human-derived fibroblast growth factor 7 and a use thereof. The...