US Patent Issued to RIKEN, ZEON, THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER on Nov. 3 for "Method of producing unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds with mutated ferulic acid from Saccharomyces" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,213, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to RIKEN (Saitama, Japan), ZEON Corp. (Tokyo) and THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method of producing unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds with mutated ferulic acid from Saccharomyces" was invented by Tomokazu Shirai (Wako, Japan), Yutaro Mori (Wako, Japan), Kazuhiro Takahashi (Tokyo) and Yayoi Akahori (Hiratsuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wild-type ferulic acid decarboxylase obtained from Saccharomyces has high catalytic activity for the production of unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds. Further, in the ferulic acid decarboxylase, substitution of the amino acid at position 398 of SEQ I...