US Patent Issued to CJ CHEILJEDANG on April 15 for "Microorganism producing purine nucleotide and method of producing purine nucleotide using the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,972, issued on April 15, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Microorganism producing purine nucleotide and method of producing purine nucleotide using the same" was invented by Ji Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sojung Park (Seoul, South Korea), Hee Su Kwon (Seoul, South Korea), Dae Young Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Ji Hye Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a microorganism of the genus Corynebacterium which produces a purine nucleotide, and a method of producing a purine nucleotide using the microorganism."

The patent was filed on Feb. 19, 2021, under Application No. 17/296,375...