US Patent Issued to INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE TOULOUSE, UNIVERSITE TOULOUSE III-PAUL SABATIER, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT on July 15 for "Synthetic methylotrophy" (French, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,207, issued on July 15, was assigned to INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE TOULOUSE (Toulouse, France), UNIVERSITE TOULOUSE III-PAUL SABATIER (Toulouse, France), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris) and INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT (Paris).

"Synthetic methylotrophy" was invented by Stephanie Heux (Balma, France), Alessandro De Simone (Bari, Italy) and Jean-Charles Portais (Pibrac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a microorganism, which has been engineered to acquire methylotrophy. More particularly, the application describes a non-natur...