US Patent Issued to CJ CHEILJEDANG on May 12 for "Variant polypeptides having enhanced activity of 3-methyl-2-oxobutanoate hydroxymethyltransferase and microorganisms for producing pantothenic or pantoic acid" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,344, issued on May 12, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Variant polypeptides having enhanced activity of 3-methyl-2-oxobutanoate hydroxymethyltransferase and microorganisms for producing pantothenic or pantoic acid" was invented by Yee-Seul So (Seoul, South Korea), Kwang Soo Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Jihyun Shim (Seoul, South Korea), Kwang Woo Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Yeon-Jae Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3-methyl-2-oxobutanoate hydroxymethyltransferase variant, a microorganism having enhanced activity of 3-methyl-2-oxobutanoate hydroxymethyltransferase, a composition for pr...