ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,853, issued on April 21, was assigned to Nourish Ingredients PTY LTD (Mitchell, Australia).

"Production of short chain fatty acids" was invented by Anna El Tahchy (Moncrieff, Australia), Dawar Hussain (Franklin, Australia), Surinder Pal Singh (Downer, Australia), Pushkar Shrestha (Lawson, Australia), Rosangela Aparecida Devilla (Casey, Australia) and James Robertson Petrie (Goulburn, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to microbial cells comprising triacylglycerol (TAG) with short chain fatty acids (SCFA), as well as methods of using these cells to produce lipid comprising TAG with SCFAs."

The pat...