US Patent Issued to BioVerde Tech on April 7 for "Biological production of multi-carbon compounds from methane" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,494, issued on April 7, was assigned to BioVerde Tech LLC (Houston).

"Biological production of multi-carbon compounds from methane" was invented by William J. Coleman (Redwood City, Calif.), Genevieve M. Vidanes (San Francisco), Guillaume Cottarel (Mountain View, Calif.), Sheela Muley (Fremont, Calif.), Roy Kamimura (Daly City, Calif.), Akbar F. Javan (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Jianping Sun (Belmont, Calif.) and Eli S. Groban (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-carbon compounds such as ethanol, n-butanol, sec-butanol, isobutanol, tert-butanol, fatty (or aliphatic long chain) alcohols, fatty acid methyl esters, 2,3-butanedio...