US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAITAMA UNIVERSITY on March 17 for "Method for producing polyisoprenoid by reaction catalyzed by mutant cis-prenyltransferase (CPT) family protein, and method for producing rubber product" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,543, issued on March 17, was assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kobe, Japan), TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan), KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY (Kanazawa, Japan) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAITAMA UNIVERSITY (Saitama City, Japan).

"Method for producing polyisoprenoid by reaction catalyzed by mutant cis-prenyltransferase (CPT) family protein, and method for producing rubber product" was invented by Haruhiko Yamaguchi (Kobe, Japan), Yukino Inoue (Kobe, Japan), Seiji Takahashi (Sendai, Japan), Toru Nakayama (Sendai, Japan), Satoshi Yamashita (Kanazawa, Japan) and Yuzuru Tozawa (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prov...