US Patent Issued to Korea University Research and Business Foundation on March 11 for "Recombinant microorganism having increased ability to produce isopropanol and method of producing isopropanol using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,240, issued on March 11, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Recombinant microorganism having increased ability to produce isopropanol and method of producing isopropanol using same" was invented by Sung Ok Han (Seoul, South Korea), Young Jin Ko (Chuncheon-si, South Korea) and Joy Cha (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an expression cassette for isopropanol production, a recombinant vector for isopropanol production expression cassette, a including the recombinant microorganism for isopropanol production into which the vector is introduced, and a meth...