ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,993, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to DANISCO US INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and compositions for producing proteins of interest in pigment deficient bacillus cells" was invented by Ryan L. Frisch (Newark, Del.), Ibrahim Halloum (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mikhail Karymov (Newark, Calif.) and Christopher John Webb (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments of the disclosure are related to compositions and methods for producing proteins of interest in pigment deficient Bacillus cells. Certain other embodiments are related to compositions and methods for obtaining pigment deficient Bacillus cells. Cert...