ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,622, issued on May 27, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).
"Method for producing guanidino acetic acid (GAA)" was invented by Frank Schneider (Halle, Germany), Kay Marin (Borgholzhausen, Germany), Melanie Nickolaus (Spenge, Germany), Julia Tegethoff (Halle, Germany) and Marleen Oesterhoff (Paderborn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microorganism is capable of producing guanidinoacetic acid (GAA) that has been improved by using a carbamate kinase. The microorganism with an improved capacity to provide L-arginine as starting material of the GAA biosynthesis by efficient recycling of ornithine improves the ...