US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on Nov. 3 for "Method for producing trans-polyisoprenoid, vector, transgenic organism, method for producing pneumatic tire, and method for producing rubber product" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,246, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kobe, Japan) and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Method for producing trans-polyisoprenoid, vector, transgenic organism, method for producing pneumatic tire, and method for producing rubber product" was invented by Haruhiko Yamaguchi (Kobe, Japan), Yukino Miyagi Inoue (Kobe, Japan), Toru Nakayama (Sendai, Japan) and Seiji Takahashi (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure aims to provide a method for producing a trans-polyisoprenoid (trans-1,4-polyisoprene) with a molecular weight of more than 105 in an enzymatic manner. The present...