US Patent Issued to FIRMENICH on Jan. 27 for "Lipoxygenase-catalyzed production of unsaturated C 10 -aldehydes from polyunsatrurated fatty acids" (Chinese, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,745, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FIRMENICH SA (Satigny, Switzerland).

"Lipoxygenase-catalyzed production of unsaturated C 10 -aldehydes from polyunsatrurated fatty acids" was invented by Lei Han (Shanghai), Qi Wang (Shanghai), Olivier Haefliger (Satigny, Switzerland), Didier Belorgey (Shanghai) and Christoph Cerny (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods for the lipoxygenase (LOX)-catalyzed production of aliphatic unsaturated C10-aldehyde compounds from polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) sources, and the isolation and characterization of novel, preferably bifunctional LOXs from different algae sourc...