US Patent Issued to AJINOMOTO on Aug. 12 for "Method of producing L-amino acids" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,074, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to AJINOMOTO Co. INC. (Tokyo).

"Method of producing L-amino acids" was invented by Natalia Viktorovna Stoynova (Moscow), Olga Nikolaevna Igonina (Moscow), Evgeniya Aleksandrovna Malykh (Moscow), Natalya Sergeevna Plekhanova (Moscow), Irena Alexandrovna Kononova (Moscow), Ivan Alexandrovich Butov (Moscow), Viktor Vasilievich Samsonov (Moscow), Irina Vladimirovna Biryukova (Moscow) and Irina Segreevna Shmagina (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for producing an L-amino acid including the steps of cultivating in a culture medium an L-amino acid-producing bacterium belonging ...