US Patent Issued to BASF on July 29 for "Fermentative production of n-butylacrylate using alcohol acyl transferase enzymes" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,719, issued on July 29, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Fermentative production of n-butylacrylate using alcohol acyl transferase enzymes" was invented by Stephan Saum (Lampertheim, Germany), Woncheol Kim (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Oskar Zelder (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Jennifer Jaitzig (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Zheyuan Guo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a recombinant nucleic acid molecule, a recombinant microorganism, and a method for fermentative production of n-butylacrylate and other esters from alcohols and acyl-CoA units using alcohol acyl transferase enzymes."

The patent was f...