ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,234, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SHIHEZI UNIVERSITY (Xinjiang, China).

"Engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains for production of vanillylamine and capsaicin, and construction method and use thereof" was invented by Genlin Zhang (Shihezi, China), Yuanyuan Li (Shihezi, China), Jinyu Zhao (Shihezi, China), Di Qiu (Shihezi, China) and Yan Zhang (Shihezi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains for production of vanillylamine and capsaicin, and a construction method and use thereof, and belongs to the technical field of bioengineering. In the present disclo...