US Patent Issued to CJ CHEILJEDANG on April 8 for "Polypeptide and method of producing IMP using the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,851, issued on April 8, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Polypeptide and method of producing IMP using the same" was invented by Jin Ah Rho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byoung Hoon Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), So-Jung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Min Ji Baek (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ji Hye Lee (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a novel protein variant having an activity of exporting 5'-inosine monophosphate, a microorganism comprising the protein variant, and a method for preparing 5'-inosine monophosphate using the microorganism."

The patent was filed on...