ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,187, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NAN YA PLASTICS Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for converting carbon source into serine" was invented by Te-Chao Liao (Taipei, Taiwan), Jung-Jen Chuang (Taipei, Taiwan), Yi-Cheng Li (Taipei, Taiwan), Tzu-Huan Wong (Hualien County, Taiwan) and Liang-Jung Chien (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for converting a carbon source into serine includes: synthesizing a DNA sequence; implanting the DNA sequence into a plasmid, so that the plasmid includes gene sequences of SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 2, and SEQ ID NO: 3; implanting the plasmid into cyanobacteria through an electropor...