US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on March 25 for "Alkane oxidation by modified hydroxylases" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,605, issued on March 25, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Alkane oxidation by modified hydroxylases" was invented by Frances Arnold (Pasadena, Calif.), Peter Meinhold (Pasadena, Calif.), Matthew W. Peters (Pasadena, Calif.), Rudi Fasan (Brea, Calif.) and Mike M. Y. Chen (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to modified hydroxylases. The invention further relates to cells expressing such modified hydroxylases and methods of producing hydroxylated alkanes by contacting a suitable substrate with such cells."

The patent was filed on Dec. 23, 2021, under Applicatio...