US Patent Issued to KYUSHU UNIVERSITY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, KONAN GAKUEN, Nippon Suisan on Feb. 3 for "Method for producing microbial oil from labyrinthulid microorganism capable of producing said microbial oil" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,343, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to KYUSHU UNIVERSITY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Corp. (Fukuoka, Japan), KONAN GAKUEN (Kobe, Japan) and Nippon Suisan Kaisha Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing microbial oil from labyrinthulid microorganism capable of producing said microbial oil" was invented by Yuji Okita (Tokyo), Makoto Ito (Fukuoka, Japan), Rie Hamaguchi (Fukuoka, Japan), Hatsumi Goda (Fukuoka, Japan), Seiya Mochinaga (Fukuoka, Japan) and Daisuke Honda (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a microbial oil includes genetically modifying a labyrinthulid which belongs to the genus Parietichytrium or the genus ...