ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,267, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Manus Bio Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Microbial production of rotundone" was invented by Ryan N. Philippe (Cambridge, Mass.), Ajikumar Parayil Kumaran (Cambridge, Mass.), Christine Nicole S. Santos (Cambridge, Mass.), Jason Donald (Cambridge, Mass.) and Stephen Sarria (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for producing rotundone. In various aspects, the present disclosure provides enzymes, polynucleotides encoding said enzymes, and recombinant microbial host cells (or microbial host strains) for the production of rotundone. In some...