ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,417, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to DAESANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Modified microorganism of genus Corynebacterium producing L-glutamic acid and method for producing L-glutamic acid using same" was invented by Sun Hee Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Hyun Ho Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyun Sook Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Joon Hyun Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a Corynebacterium sp. mutant microorganism producing L-glutamic acid and a method of producing L-glutamic acid using the same, and more specifically, to a novel biotin-p...