ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,488, issued on July 28, was assigned to NANJING BESTZYME BIO-ENGINEERING Co. LTD. (Nanjing, China) and JINAN BESTZYME BIO-ENGINEERING Co. LTD. (Jinan, China).

"Chimeric lysozyme variant and application thereof in animal feed additive" was invented by Fei Zheng (Nanjing, China), Ting Yan (Nanjing, China), Jidong Zhu (Nanjing, China), Hong Xu (Nanjing, China), Yan Sun (Nanjing, China) and Yanjie Liu (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chimeric lysozyme variant has an improved heat resistance and is encoded by a polynucleotide. A novel chimeric lysozyme sequence is constructed, and high-efficiency expression in a host cell is...