US Patent Issued to AMVAC Chemical on July 1 for "Microbial consortia producing dipicolinic acid and methods for selecting microbes for co-formulation with carriers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,825, issued on July 1, was assigned to AMVAC Chemical Corp. (Newport Beach, Calif.).

"Microbial consortia producing dipicolinic acid and methods for selecting microbes for co-formulation with carriers" was invented by Benjamin Gordon (Davis, Calif.) and Frederic Kendirgi (Woodland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for selecting a microbe for co-formulation with a carrier are provided. In some examples, the methods include identifying a microbe that comprises one or more dipicolinic acid (DPA) synthase genes, a microbe that expresses one or more DPA synthase proteins, and/or a microbe that produces DPA; and selecting the m...