US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on June 24 for "Aconitic acid exporter (aexA) increases organic acid production in aspergillus" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,480, issued on June 24, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Aconitic acid exporter (aexA) increases organic acid production in aspergillus" was invented by Shuang Deng (Richland, Wash.), Jon K. Magnuson (Richland, Wash.), Joonhoon Kim (Berkeley, Calif.), Kyle R. Pomraning (Richland, Wash.), Ziyu Dai (Richland, Wash.) and Beth A. Hofstad (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Recombinant Aspergillus genetically modified to increase expression of g8846, renamed herein as aconitic acid exporter (aexA), are provided, which in some examples are also genetically inactivated for an endogenous cis-aconiti...