US Patent Issued to Genomatica on March 17 for "Engineered microorganisms and methods for improved aldehyde dehydrogenase activity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,594, issued on March 17, was assigned to Genomatica Inc. (San Diego).

"Engineered microorganisms and methods for improved aldehyde dehydrogenase activity" was invented by Amit M. Shah (San Diego) and Harish Nagarajan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are biosynthetic methods and engineered microorganism that enhance or improve the biosynthesis of hexamethylenediamine, caproic acid or caprolactam. The engineered microorganisms include selected aldehyde dehydrogenase activity."

The patent was filed on April 24, 2020, under Application No. 17/605,196.

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