ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,672, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to DANISCO US INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Saccharomyces yeast cell and fermentation process using such" was invented by Hans Marinus Charles Johannes De Bruijn (Echt, Netherlands), Phillip E. Bureman (Echt, Netherlands), Evert Tjeerd Van Rij (Echt, Netherlands) and Rene Marcel De Jong (Echt, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Saccharomyces yeast cell, preferably a Saccharomyces cerevisae yeast cell, comprising one or more nucleic acid sequences encoding an enzyme having NADH-dependent nitrate reductase activity and/or one or more nucleic acid sequences encoding an enzyme having NADH-dep...