US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, TOYOBO on Jan. 27 for "Monoacylated MEL-producing microorganism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,749, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo) and TOYOBO Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Monoacylated MEL-producing microorganism" was invented by Tomotake Morita (Tsukuba, Japan), Azusa Saika (Tsukuba, Japan), Tokuma Fukuoka (Tsukuba, Japan), Dai Kitamoto (Tsukuba, Japan), Tomohiro Sugahara (Tsuruga, Japan), Shuhei Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan) and Atsushi Sogabe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a monoacylated MEL. A microorganism of the genus Pseudozyma produces monoacylated MEL-B."

The patent was filed on Dec. 2, 2020, under Application No. 17/784,032....