US Patent Issued to Acies Bio d.o.o. on Nov. 3 for "Genetically modified Methylobacillus bacteria having improving properties" (Slovene, Slovenian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,198, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Acies Bio d.o.o. (Ljubljana, Slovenia).

"Genetically modified Methylobacillus bacteria having improving properties" was invented by Aleksander Johannes Kruis (Bled, Slovenia), David Virant (Dob, Slovenia), Jaka Horvat (Kranj, Slovenia), Toni Nagode (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and Stefan Fujs (Ljubljana, Slovenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to the biotechnology engineering, and specifically to genetically modified bacteria of the genus Methylobacillus which have improved properties making them particularly useful in large scale methanol fermentations. More spec...