US Patent Issued to AJINOMOTO on July 28 for "Method of producing L-amino acid" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,523, issued on July 28, was assigned to AJINOMOTO Co. INC. (Tokyo).

"Method of producing L-amino acid" was invented by Seiko Hirano (Kanagawa, Japan), Kota Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuyuki Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kosuke Yokota (Kanagawa, Japan), Mika Moriya (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoko Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshitomo Kadokura (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeshi Nagahiko (Mie, Japan) and Akari Tashiro (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of producing an L-amino acid such as L-glutamic acid and the like. An L-amino-acid is produced by cultivating a coryneform bacterium having L-amino acid-producing ability i...