US Patent Issued to DAESANG on June 9 for "Recombinant organism and method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,911, issued on June 9, was assigned to DAESANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Recombinant organism and method" was invented by Sun Hee Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Tae Yeol Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Hyun Ho Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyun Sook Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jong Hwan Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a novel PTS transporter subunit EIIC variant and a method of producing 5'-inosinic acid using the same. The PTS transporter subunit EIIC variant is obtained by substituting one or more amino acids in the amino acid sequence constituting PT...