US Patent Issued to Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.-Petrobras, Universidade Federal Do Ceara-UFC on April 21 for "Genetically modified microorganisms that carry out the heterologous production of modified versions of the surfactant protein LV-ranaspumin-1(LV-RSN-1), the modified versions of said surfactant protein, the synthetic genes encoding said surfactant protein, the expression cassettes containing said synthetic genes, and the expression vectors containing said synthetic genes" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,601, issued on April 21, was assigned to Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.-Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Universidade Federal Do Ceara-UFC (Fortaleza, Brazil).

"Genetically modified microorganisms that carry out the heterologous production of modified versions of the surfactant protein LV-ranaspumin-1(LV-RSN-1), the modified versions of said surfactant protein, the synthetic genes encoding said surfactant protein, the expression cassettes containing said synthetic genes, and the expression vectors containing said synthetic genes" was invented by Vania Maria Maciel Melo (Fortaleza, Brazil), Vinicius De Abreu Waldow (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Danuza Nogueira Moyses (Niteroi, Brazil)...