ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,997, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (East Lansing, Mich.) and UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN (Copenhagen, Denmark).

"Method for producing the sesquiterpene viridiflorol with a fungal enzyme" was invented by Fani Ntana (Copenhagen, Denmark), David B. Collinge (Frederiksberg, Denmark), Bjorn Hamberger (Okemos, Mich.), Wajid Waheed Bhat (Haslett, Mich.), Sean Johnson (Bedford, Mass.), Birgit Jensen (Frederiksberg C, Denmark) and Hans Jorgen Lyngs Jorgensen (Frederiksberg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Constructs, host cells, fungi, seeds, plants, and methods are described herein ca...