US Patent Issued to AJINOMOTO on April 22 for "Method of producing N-acyl-amino group-containing compound" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,340, issued on April 22, was assigned to AJINOMOTO Co. INC. (Tokyo).

"Method of producing N-acyl-amino group-containing compound" was invented by Hidemi Nagata (Kanagawa, Japan), Keiko Danjou (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Takakura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroyuki Nozaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method efficiently produces a compound containing an N-acyl-amino group by an enzymatic method. Specifically, a method of producing a compound containing an N-acyl-amino group includes producing the compound containing an N-acyl-amino group by reacting a compound containing an amino group with a compound containing a carboxyl gr...