US Patent Issued to Leibniz-Institut fur Naturstoff-Forschung und Infektionsbiologie e. V. Hans-Knoll-Institut (HKI) on July 21 for "Method for producing olivetolic acid in an amoebozoa host species" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,877, issued on July 21, was assigned to Leibniz-Institut fur Naturstoff-Forschung und Infektionsbiologie e. V. Hans-Knoll-Institut (HKI) (Jena, Germany).

"Method for producing olivetolic acid in an amoebozoa host species" was invented by Falk Hillmann (Jena, Germany), Christin Reimer (Jena, Germany), Johann Elias Kufs (Jena, Germany) and Vito Valiante (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for the recombinant production of olivetolic acid (OA) in a host species selected from amoebozoa, based on a hybrid-gene or enzyme of polyketide synthase 37 (PKS37) in which the C-terminal type III P...