US Patent Issued to DSM IP ASSETS on Oct. 7 for "Fermentative glycerol-free ethanol production" (Dutch, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,339, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DSM IP ASSETS B.V. (Heerlen, Netherlands).

"Fermentative glycerol-free ethanol production" was invented by Jacobus Thomas Pronk (Schipluiden, Netherlands), Antonius Jeroen Adriaan Van Maris (Stockholm) and Victor Gabriel Guadalupe Medina (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a yeast cell, in particular a recombinant yeast cell, the cell lacking enzymatic activity needed for the NADH-dependent glycerol synthesis or the cell having a reduced enzymatic activity with respect to the NADH-dependent glycerol synthesis compared to its corresponding wild-type ...