ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,533, issued on July 14, was assigned to NANJING SOUTHERN ELEMENT BIOTECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Nanjing City, China).

"Paenibacillus strain, and hemostatic polysaccharide produced by same and use thereof" was invented by Jianfa Zhang (Nanjing, China), Changchang Kong (Nanjing, China), Shijunyin Chen (Nanjing, China) and Bing Li (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a Paenibacillus strain, and a hemostatic polysaccharide produced by same and use thereof. In the present disclosure, a Paenibacillus sp. 1229 has a deposit number of CCTCC NO: M 2022553. A produced exopolysaccharide (EPS) Hemoadhican has a...