ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,252, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NINGXIA EPPEN BIOTECH Co. LTD (Ningxia, China).

"Strain having enhanced l-glutamic acid productivity, construction method therefor and application thereof" was invented by Houbo Su (Ningxia, China), Aiying Wei (Ningxia, China), Gang Meng (Ningxia, China), Lipeng Yang (Ningxia, China), Fengyong Ma (Ningxia, China), Huiping Jia (Ningxia, China), Xiaoqun Zhou (Ningxia, China) and Chunguang Zhao (Ningxia, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are strain having enhanced L-glutamic acid production capacity, and method for constructing the same and use thereof. A nucleotide sequence is provided...