US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on April 14 for "Plants and methods for producing 2-pyrone-4, 6-dicarboxylic acid (PDC)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,977, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Plants and methods for producing 2-pyrone-4, 6-dicarboxylic acid (PDC)" was invented by Chien-Yuan Lin (Richmond, Calif.) and Aymerick Guillaume Eudes (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a genetically modified plant or plant cell comprising a nucleic acid encoding one or more heterologous enzymes operably linked a promoter, wherein one or more heterologous enzymes synthesizes 2-pyrone-4,6-dicarboxylic acid (PDC)."

The patent was filed on Oct. 14, 2021, under Application No. 17/501,89...