US Patent Issued to LOCUS SOLUTIONS IPCO on April 21 for "Enhanced microbial production of biosurfactants and other products, and uses thereof" (Florida, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,753, issued on April 21, was assigned to LOCUS SOLUTIONS IPCO LLC (Solon, Ohio).

"Enhanced microbial production of biosurfactants and other products, and uses thereof" was invented by Sean Farmer (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.), Xiaozhou Zhang (Solon, Ohio), Sharmistha Mazumder (Copley, Ohio) and Maja Milovanovic (North Royalton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This present invention relates to compositions and methods of microbial enhanced oil recovery using Bacillus subtilis strains. The invention also relates to compositions and methods for performing oil degradation with Bacillus subtilis strains. The compositions and methods of the ...