ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,711, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Genomatica Inc. (San Diego).

"Method of producing and processing diamines to a diamine free base using a carbonate intermediate and an engineered microorganism" was invented by Lauri H. Suominen (San Diego), Connor J. Galleher (San Diego), Michael Japs (San Diego), Mark J. Burk (San Diego) and Cara Tracewell (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of producing and isolating a diamine produced by microbial fermentation that minimizes undesirable salt formation to provide a lower cost process."

The patent was filed on May 22, 2023, under Application No. 18/321,585.

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