US Patent Issued to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma Norman on Aug. 25 for "Methods of using Syntrophus aciditrophicus to produce cyclohexane-1-carboxylate (CHC)" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,078, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma Norman (Norman, Okla.).

"Methods of using Syntrophus aciditrophicus to produce cyclohexane-1-carboxylate (CHC)" was invented by Michael J. McInerney (Norman, Okla.), Neil Q. Wofford (Norman, Okla.), Ebony Boling (Mustang, Okla.) and Elizabeth A. Karr (Norman, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing cyclohexane-1-carboxylate (CHC), including providing a growth medium comprising a yeast extract, and a crotonate salt; providing a culture of Syntrophus aciditrophicus (S. aciditrophicus); using the growth medium to initiate growth...