ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,484, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (Hangzhou, China).

"Omega-transaminase mutant based on ancestral sequence reconstruction" was invented by Jun Huang (Hangzhou, China), Tingting Cai (Hangzhou, China), Shui Qiu (Hangzhou, China), Lehe Mei (Hangzhou, China), Jiaren Cao (Hangzhou, China), Changjiang Lyu (Hangzhou, China), Fangfang Fan (Hangzhou, China), Sheng Hu (Hangzhou, China), Ye Li (Hangzhou, China), Weirui Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Feng Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Yuanyuan Li (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The amino acid sequence of a w-transaminase mutant derived from ...