US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, KYOTO UNIVERSITY on Sept. 29 for "System and method for increased alcohol tolerance and production in yeast" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,459, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, N.J.), WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH (Cambridge, Mass.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and KYOTO UNIVERSITY (Kyoto, Japan).

"System and method for increased alcohol tolerance and production in yeast" was invented by Jose L. Avalos (Princeton, N.J.), Sarah K. Hammer (Philadelphia), Kouichi Kuroda (Kyoto, Japan), Gerald R. Fink (Cambridge, Mass.) and Gregory Stephanopoulos (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing metabolites that are heavy alcohols, and particularly branched...