US Patent Issued to CJ CHEILJEDANG on June 9 for "L-methionine producing microorganism to which protein encoded by foreign metZ gene is introduced and method for producing L-methionine using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,938, issued on June 9, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"L-methionine producing microorganism to which protein encoded by foreign metZ gene is introduced and method for producing L-methionine using same" was invented by Sol Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Nam Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hee Ju Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Ah Rho (Seoul, South Korea) and Han Hyoung Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An L-methionine-producing microorganism into which a metZ gene is introduced and a method of producing L-methionine using the same."

The patent was filed on Oct. 28, 2020, under Application No. 1...