ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,478, issued on May 13, was assigned to PRAJ INDUSTRIES Ltd. (India).

"Industrially useful strains of yeast" was invented by Rishi Jain (Hinjewadi, India), Dheeraj Madhukar Mahajan (Hinjewadi, India), Sanjay Ratilal Mistry (Hinjewadi, India), Rutuja Shivaji Jagtap (Hinjewadi, India), Megha Shaligram Bilaiya (Hinjewadi, India), Rajesh Kumar Singh (Hinjewadi, India), Ghansham Baburao Deshpande (Hinjewadi, India) and Pramod Shankar Kumbhar (Hinjewadi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for the preparation of industrially useful strains of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the strain prepared by the me...