US Patent Issued to DANSTAR FERMENT on Oct. 21 for "Bacterial-derived nitrogen source for ethanol fermentation" (New Hampshire, Georgia, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,631, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DANSTAR FERMENT AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Bacterial-derived nitrogen source for ethanol fermentation" was invented by James L. Steele (Lebanon, N.H.), Brooks Henningsen (Salisbury, N.H.), Jeffery R. Broadbent (Amalga, Utah), Ekkarat Phrommao (Lebanon, N.H.) and Fernanda Cristina Firmino (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure concerns a recombinant bacterial host cell capable of providing a nitrogen source to a yeast during fermentation to make ethanol. The recombinant bacterial host cell is capable of converting a biomass into ethanol. The recombinant bacterial host cell h...