ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,726, issued on March 18, was assigned to INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED (Mumbai, India).

"Process for simultaneous production of citric acid and cellulolytic enzymes" was invented by Mukund Adsul (Faridabad, India), Simranjeet Kaur Sandhu (Faridabad, India), Reeta Rani Singhania (Faridabad, India), Anshu Shankar Mathur (Faridabad, India), Ravi Prakash Gupta (Faridabad, India), Deepak Kumar Tuli (Faridabad, India), Suresh Kumar Puri (Faridabad, India) and Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar (Faridabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for simultaneous production of citric acid and cellulolytic...