US Patent Issued to FIRMENICH on March 18 for "Method for producing drimanyl acetate compounds" (Swiss, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,727, issued on March 18, was assigned to FIRMENICH SA (Satigny, Switzerland).

"Method for producing drimanyl acetate compounds" was invented by Daniel Solis Escalante (Satigny, Switzerland), Christian Gorner (Satigny, Switzerland), Laurent Daviet (Satigny, Switzerland) and Qi Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are novel methods for the acetyl transferase-catalyzed production of drimanyl-acetate compounds by the acetylation of the respective drimanyl alcohol sources performed in vitro or in vivo. Also described herein is the identification of enzymes having corresponding acetyl transferase activity from di...