ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,561, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).
"Production of carotenoids and apocarotenoids" was invented by Congqiang Zhang (Singapore), Xixian Chen (Singapore) and Heng-Phon Too (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a carotenoid or apocarotenoid is disclosed. The method comprises the step of expressing in a host cell an expression module comprising an expression vector having a coding region encoding at least one optimised carotenoid or apocarotenoid generating enzyme, the coding region being operably linked to a promoter. A host cell comprising an expressi...