US Patent Issued to TIANJIN INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on July 21 for "Microorganism for producing pantoic acid, and construction method therefor and application thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,878, issued on July 21, was assigned to TIANJIN INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (China).

"Microorganism for producing pantoic acid, and construction method therefor and application thereof" was invented by Xueli Zhang (Tianjin, China), Pingping Liu (Tianjin, China) and Jinlei Tang (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a microorganism for producing a pantoic acid, and a construction method therefor and an application thereof. The microorganism for producing the pantoic acid is obtained by knocking out genes in Escherichia coli and introducing exogenous genes. The obtained microo...