ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,255, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ENEOS MATERIALS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Microbe that produces carotenoid" was invented by Daichi Kuwahara (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object of the present invention is to provide a production method for Beta-cryptoxanthin with improved production efficiency. The present invention provides a method for producing Beta-cryptoxanthin by culturing bacteria of the genus Paracoccus at a given dissolved oxygen concentration, wherein the bacteria of the genus Paracoccus are bacteria forming yellow to orange colonies; or bacteria whose endogenous crtW gene has been partially or completely deleted or...