ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,660, issued on April 29, was assigned to LanzaTech Inc. (Skokie, Ill.).

"Microbial fermentation for the production of terpenes" was invented by Michael Koepke (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method for producing a terpene or a precursor thereof by microbial fermentation. Typically, the method involves culturing a recombinant bacterium in the presence of a gaseous substrate whereby the bacterium produces a terpene or a precursor thereof, such as mevalonic acid, isopentenyl pyrophosphate, dimethylallyl pyrophosphate, isoprene, geranyl pyrophosphate, farnesyl pyrophosphate, and/or farnesene. The bacterium...