US Patent Issued on Sept. 22 for "Genetically engineered Zymomonas mobilis ZM4 for producing PHB and uses thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,149, issued on Sept. 22.

"Genetically engineered Zymomonas mobilis ZM4 for producing PHB and uses thereof" was invented by Shihui Yang (Wuhan, China), Qiaoning He (Wuhan, China) and Yang Li (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a genetically engineered Z. mobilis ZM4 for producing PHB and uses thereof. A variety of strains capable of producing both PHB and ethanol that are constructed by integrating three codon-optimized essential genes for exogenous PUB biosynthesis, phaA, phaB and phaC, together with a tetracycline-inducible promoter Ptet into the genome of ZM4."

The patent was filed on Dec. 27, 2...