ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,618, issued on June 30, was assigned to SHAANXI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Hanzhong, China).

"Application of MmPI in preparation of trypsin inhibitors" was invented by Youshan Li (Hanzhong, China), Rui Zhu (Hanzhong, China) and Zhuxing Luo (Hanzhong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of genetic engineering or enzyme engineering, and in particular to an application of MmBBK2 in preparation of trypsin and chymotrypsin inhibitors. The MmBBK2 has the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO. 1 or SEQ ID NO. 2. The present disclosure clarifies for the first time that MmBBK2 in mulberry leaves ha...