US Patent Issued to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY on June 17 for "Microalgae having high loliolide productivity" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,850, issued on June 17, was assigned to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY (South Korea).

"Microalgae having high loliolide productivity" was invented by Hee Sik Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Dae Hyun Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin A Heo (Daejeon, South Korea), U Rim Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Su Bin Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to novel microalgae with high productivity of loliolide, in which the Scenedesmus sp. HS4 of the present invention can be used as a biological resource to produce loliolide due to its high biomass productivity and high lolioli...