US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on July 14 for "Method for producing tertiary Beta-hydroxy-Alpha-amino acids" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,119, issued on July 14, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Method for producing tertiary Beta-hydroxy-Alpha-amino acids" was invented by Andrew Buller (Madison, Wis.), Tyler Doyon (Eau Claire, Wis.), Samantha Bruffy (Madison, Wis.) and Anthony Meza (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to make tertiary Beta-hydroxy Alpha-amino acids. The method includes reacting a ketone substrate and a primary or secondary Beta-hydroxy Alpha-amino acid with an L-threonine aldolase and/or an L-threonine transaldolase for a time, at a temperature, and at a pH wherein the reaction yields a tertiary B...