US Patent Issued to Genomatica on July 29 for "Aldehyde dehydrogenase variants and methods of using same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,673, issued on July 29, was assigned to Genomatica Inc. (San Diego).

"Aldehyde dehydrogenase variants and methods of using same" was invented by Amit Shah (San Diego) and Joseph Warner (Oceanside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides polypeptides and encoding nucleic acids of aldehyde dehydrogenase variants. The invention also provides cells expressing aldehyde dehydrogenase variants. The invention further provides methods for producing 3-hydroxybutyraldehyde (3-HBal) and/or 1,3-butanediol (1,3-BDO), or an ester or amide thereof, comprising culturing cells expressing an aldehyde dehydrogenase variant or using ...