US Patent Issued to Compass Pathfinder on April 7 for "Processes for the production of tryptamines" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,497, issued on April 7, was assigned to Compass Pathfinder Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain).

"Processes for the production of tryptamines" was invented by Ryan Protzko (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes, including E. coli and S. cerevisiae, genetically altered to biosynthesize tryptamine and tryptamine derivatives. The microbes of the disclosure may be engineered to contain plasmids and stable gene integrations containing sufficient genetic information for conversion of an anthranilate or an indole to a tryptamine. The fermentative production of substituted trypta...