US Patent Issued to Alliance for Sustainable Energy, UT-Battelle on July 29 for "Engineered microorganisms for the deconstruction of polymers" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,718, issued on July 29, was assigned to Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC (Golden, Colo.) and UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Engineered microorganisms for the deconstruction of polymers" was invented by Gregg Tyler Beckham (Golden, Colo.), Thelhawadigedara Lahiru Niroshan Jayakody (Wheat Ridge, Colo.), Adam Michael Guss (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Thomas David Mand (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Christopher W. Johnson (Denver), Isabel Pardo Mendoza (Dos Hermanas, Spain) and Allison Jean Zimont Werner (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for catalytic glycolysis to deconstruct PET to bis(2-hydroxye...