US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Aug. 11 for "Methods and systems to secrete lignin-modifying enzymes and uses thereof" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,877, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Methods and systems to secrete lignin-modifying enzymes and uses thereof" was invented by Nikita A. Khlystov (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to lignin-modifying enzymes and systems and methods of their manufacture. In many embodiments, yeast strains, including S. cerevisiae, are used to produce and secrete lignin-modifying enzymes Further embodiments are directed to methods to screening peroxidase-producing yeast strains, including S. ce...