ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,068, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Clara Foods Co. (Daly City, Calif.).

"Systems for end-to-end optimization of precision fermentation-produced animal proteins in food applications" was invented by A Samuel Pottinger (Daly City, Calif.), Dane Mathias Jacobson (Newton, Mass.), Ranjan Patnaik (Daly City, Calif.), Varsha Gopalakrishnan (Daly City, Calif.) and Zachary Friar (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods for precision fermentation that iteratively build models, collect data broadly, and deliver information to users both directly (via API or user interface) or through third party soft...