US Patent Issued to Genomatica on Aug. 26 for "Methods for enhancing microbial production of specific length fatty alcohols in the presence of methanol" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,396, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Genomatica Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods for enhancing microbial production of specific length fatty alcohols in the presence of methanol" was invented by Robin E. Osterhout (San Diego), Anthony P. Burgard (Elizabeth, Pa.), Priti Pharkya (San Diego) and Stefan Andrae (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms having a formaldehyde fixation pathway, a formate assimilation pathway, and/or a methanol metabolic pathway in combination with a fatty alcohol, fatty aldehyde, fatty acid or isopropanol pathway, wherein the microbial organisms...