US Patent Issued to Genomatica on April 1 for "Microorganisms and methods for enhancing the availability of reducing equivalents in the presence of methanol, and for producing 1,4-butanediol related thereto" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,354, issued on April 1, was assigned to Genomatica Inc. (San Diego).

"Microorganisms and methods for enhancing the availability of reducing equivalents in the presence of methanol, and for producing 1,4-butanediol related thereto" was invented by Anthony P. Burgard (Bellefonte, Pa.), Robin E. Osterhout (San Diego), Stephen J. Van Dien (Encinitas, Calif.), Cara Ann Tracewell (Solana Beach, Calif.), Priti Pharkya (San Diego) and Stefan Andrae (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a non-naturally occurring microbial organism having a methanol metabolic pathway that can enhance the availability of reducing equivale...