ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,398, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Recombinant yeast expressing rubisco and phosphoribulokinase" was invented by Antonius Jeroen Adriaan Van Maris (Delft, Netherlands), Jacobus Thomas Pronk (Delft, Netherlands), Victor Gabriel Guadalupe Medina (Delft, Netherlands) and Hendrik Wouter Wisselink (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a recombinant yeast cell, in particular a transgenic yeast cell, functionally expressing one or more recombinant, in particular heterologous, nucleic acid sequences encoding ribulose-1,5-biphosphate carboxylase oxygenase (Rubisc...