US Patent Issued to Genomatica on March 17 for "Microorganisms and methods for increasing co-factors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,591, issued on March 17, was assigned to Genomatica Inc. (San Diego).

"Microorganisms and methods for increasing co-factors" was invented by Harish Nagarajan (San Diego), Gionata Scalcinati (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Tae Hoon Yang (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides microbial organisms having increased availability of co-factors, such as NADPH, for increasing production of various products, including 1,3-BDO, MMA, (3R)-hydroxybutyl (3R)-hydroxybutyrate, amino acids, 3HB-CoA, adipate, caprolactam, 6-ACA, HMD A, or MAA, and products made from any of these. Also provided are one or more exogeno...