ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,838, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
"Promoter for yeast" was invented by Xuqiu Tan (San Diego), Ruorong Cai (San Diego), Jingping Zhong (San Diego), Melissa Ann Scranton (San Diego) and Michael Speer (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A promoter operably linked to a gene encoding a protein is disclosed. The promoter drives expression of the protein in a yeast cell in the absence of methanol. Also disclosed are vectors, host cells and expression systems that include the promoter, as well as methods of using the promoter to express proteins in yeast."
The patent was filed on Nov. 17...