US Patent Issued on May 13 for "Methods for producing designer esters and assessing alcohol acyltransferase specificity for ester biosynthesis" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,480, issued on May 13.

"Methods for producing designer esters and assessing alcohol acyltransferase specificity for ester biosynthesis" was invented by Jong-Won Lee (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Cong T. Trinh (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of microbial screening for identifying alcohol acyltransferases for ester biosynthesis and submodules for ester pathways to produce butyryl-coenzyme A derived esters are disclosed. The method includes the introduction preselected plasmids into a respective host strain to form engineered microbes, in situ fermentation thereof followed by a colorimetric assay for quantification of ...