US Patent Issued to DANSTAR FERMENT on March 25 for "Limiting yeast-produced trehalose in fermentation" (New Hampshire, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,606, issued on March 25, was assigned to DANSTAR FERMENT AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Limiting yeast-produced trehalose in fermentation" was invented by Charles F. Rice (Plainfield, N.H.), Ryan Skinner (Bethel, Vt.), Trisha Barrett (Bradford, Vt.) and Aaron Argyros (Lebanan, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to recombinant yeast host cells having (i) a first genetic modification for reducing the production of one or more native enzymes that function to produce glycerol or regulating glycerol synthesis and/or allowing the production of an heterologous glucoamylase and (ii) a second genetic modification for...