US Patent Issued to AJINOMOTO on June 24 for "Method for producing 2-methyl-butyric acid by bacterial fermentation" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,481, issued on June 24, was assigned to AJINOMOTO Co. INC. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing 2-methyl-butyric acid by bacterial fermentation" was invented by Natalia Viktorovna Stoynova (Moscow), Elena Viktorovna Sycheva (Moscow), Anna Alexandrovna Ublinskaya (Moscow), Valery Vasilievich Samsonov (Moscow) and Alexandr Dmitrievich Kivero (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for producing 2-methyl-butyric acid by fermentation using a bacterium belonging to the order Enterobacterales which has been modified to attenuate expression of a tyrB gene encoding a protein having tyrosine aminotransferase a...