US Patent Issued to FIRMENICH on Sept. 23 for "Biochemically produced sandalwood oil" (Swiss, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,535, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FIRMENICH SA (Satigny, Switzerland).

"Biochemically produced sandalwood oil" was invented by Laurent Daviet (Satigny, Switzerland), Yang Huang (Shanghai), Vincent Harraca (Satigny, Switzerland), Michel Schalk (Satigny, Switzerland) and Monica Bandera (Satigny, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a biochemically produced sandalwood oil including at least 85% santalol and bergamotol and 1% or less cis-lanceol, where the oil has one or more of the following features: i) 5% or less alpha-santalal; ii) 5% or less farnesol; and iii) 0.5% or less spirosantalol. Also descri...