US Patent Issued to CJ CHEILJEDANG on March 31 for "Acetohydroxy acid synthase variant and microorganism including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,128, issued on March 31, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Acetohydroxy acid synthase variant and microorganism including the same" was invented by Kyungrim Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Tae Yeon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Imsang Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Kwang Woo Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Heeyeong Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Kwang Soo Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an acetohydroxy acid synthase variant, a polynucleotide encoding the variant, a microorganism including the variant, and a method of producing L-isoleucine using the microorganism."

The pa...