US Patent Issued to AMYRIS on Sept. 22 for "Culture compositions and methods of their use for high yield production of vanillin" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,186, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to AMYRIS INC. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Culture compositions and methods of their use for high yield production of vanillin" was invented by Elizabeth Znameroski (Emeryville, Calif.), Yi-Shu Tai (Emeryville, Calif.), Lauren Raetz (Emeryville, Calif.), Abhishek Murarka (Emeryville, Calif.) and Brandon Friedrikson (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are fermentation compositions and methods for improved production of vanillin and/or glucovanillin. The compositions and methods described herein provide efficient routes for the production of vanillin and/or glucovanillin ...