US Patent Issued to Kao on June 30 for "Method of improving resistance to substrate analog of nitric acid in microalga" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,770, issued on June 30, was assigned to Kao Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of improving resistance to substrate analog of nitric acid in microalga" was invented by Mayumi Wada (Wakayama, Japan) and Tatsuro Ozaki (Wakayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of improving resistance to a substrate analog of nitric acid in a microalga, comprising deleting a gene encoding the following protein (A) or (B) present in the genome of the microalga, or downregulating expression of a gene encoding the following protein (A) or (B): wherein protein (A) is a protein consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:41; an...