US Patent Issued to AJINOMOTO on March 24 for "Method for producing protein" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,156, issued on March 24, was assigned to AJINOMOTO Co. INC. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing protein" was invented by Yasumichi Koseki (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Katayama (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Ooya (Kanagawa, Japan), Fumi Ogata (Kanagawa, Japan), Kiyoshi Hirakawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takuya Higuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing an objective protein using animal cells as an expression host is provided. The objective protein is produced by culturing animal cells having an objective protein-producing ability under conditions where the phosphoric acid concentration and/or the potassium concen...