ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,342, issued on June 17, was assigned to C3 BIOTECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Lancaster, Great Britain).
"Linalool synthases" was invented by Nigel Scrutton (Manchester, Great Britain) and Nicole Leferink (Manchester, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Linalool synthase variants are disclosed. The variants preferably comprise an amino acid sequence having one or more amino acid substitutions. Variants producing a greater linalool yield and/or higher linalool:nerolidol ratio compared with the corresponding wild type linalool synthase are also disclosed. A method comprising the conversion of geranyl pyrophosphate to linalool using a linal...