US Patent Issued to Yeda Research and Development on July 28 for "Engineered autotrophic bacteria for CO 2 conversion to organic materials" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,519, issued on July 28, was assigned to Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Engineered autotrophic bacteria for CO 2 conversion to organic materials" was invented by Ron Milo (Kfar-Saba, Israel), Shmuel Gleizer (Rehovot, Israel), Niv Antonovsky (Rehovot, Israel), Elad Noor (Rehovot, Israel), Arren Bar-Even (Rehovot, Israel), Yehudit Zohar (Rehovot, Israel), Roee Ben Nissan (Rehovot, Israel), Elad Herz (Rehovot, Israel) and Yinon Moise Bar-On (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recombinant bacteria which is genetically modified to express formate dehydrogenase (FDH), phosphoribulokinase (prk) and R...