US Patent Issued to AJINOMOTO on July 28 for "Method for secretory production of protein" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,505, issued on July 28, was assigned to AJINOMOTO Co. INC. (Tokyo).

"Method for secretory production of protein" was invented by Yumi Nagase (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshihiko Matsuda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel technique for improving secretory production of a heterologous protein by coryneform bacteria may include a method for secretory production of a heterologous protein. A coryneform bacterium having an ability of secretory production of a heterologous protein and has been modified so as to have a combination of two or more features from among the features (A), (B), and (C) is cultured to produce the het...