US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, TOYOBO on March 4 for "Biosurfactant-producing recombinant microorganism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,106, issued on March 4, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo) and TOYOBO Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Biosurfactant-producing recombinant microorganism" was invented by Tomotake Morita (Tsukuba, Japan), Azusa Saika (Tsukuba, Japan), Hideaki Koike (Tsukuba, Japan), Tokuma Fukuoka (Tsukuba, Japan), Dai Kitamoto (Tsukuba, Japan), Tomohiro Sugahara (Tsuruga, Japan), Shuhei Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan) and Atsushi Sogabe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a means for increasing mannosylerythritol lipid (MEL) production efficiency. The present invention is a mannosylerythrito...