ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,475, issued on June 24, was assigned to Daicel Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Method for producing functional substance" was invented by Yuhei Yamamoto (Tokyo) and Hiroaki Yamamoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to a method for producing a functional substance utilizing a reaction requiring hydrogen, which production method is safe and efficient; and this object is achieved by a method for producing a functional substance utilizing a reaction requiring hydrogen, the method comprising: supplying the hydrogen by culturing of a hydrogen-producing microorganism."
The patent was filed on Jan. 20, 2021...