ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,520, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
"Modified bidirectional catalase promoter from bacillus" was invented by Max Fabian Felle (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Stefan Jenewein (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Kerstin Hage (Nienburg, Germany) and Holger Hartmann (Ludwigshafen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to the field of fermentation technology and microorganisms useful for such fermentations. The invention also relates to materials including nucleic acids and proteins useful for altering fermentation characteristics of microorganisms, and to microorganis...