US Patent Issued to Impossible Foods on Dec. 30 for "Materials and methods for protein production" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,695, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Impossible Foods Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Materials and methods for protein production" was invented by Biswajoy Roy Chaudhuri (San Mateo, Calif.) and Smita Shankar (Millibrae, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document relates to materials and methods for the production of protein. In one aspect, this document provides a first exogenous nucleic acid construct including a nucleotide sequence encoding an aminolevulinate synthase (ALAS) protein operably linked to a first promoter element, wherein the ALAS includes at least a first heme responsive motif (HRM), and wherein the ALAS in...