US Patent Issued to Ensuiko Sugar Refining, Osaka Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technoloy on March 4 for "D-glucaric acid producing bacterium, and method for manufacturing D-glucaric acid" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,112, issued on March 4, was assigned to Ensuiko Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and Osaka Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technoloy (Osaka, Japan).

"D-glucaric acid producing bacterium, and method for manufacturing D-glucaric acid" was invented by Tetsuya Ito (Tokyo), Hiroki Tadokoro (Tokyo), Hisaharu Masaki (Tokyo), Katsuhiko Mikuni (Tokyo), Hiromi Murakami (Osaka, Japan), Taro Kiso (Osaka, Japan) and Takaaki Kiryu (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a D-glucaric acid-producing bacterium and a method for producing D-glucaric acid. The present invention is characterized in that D-g...