US Patent Issued to National University of Singapore on Dec. 16 for "Recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells for cannabinoid production" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,636, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to National University of Singapore (Singapore).

"Recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells for cannabinoid production" was invented by Kevin Jie Han Lim (Singapore), Maybelle Darlene Kho Go (Singapore) and Wen Shan Yew (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recombinant cell of Saccharomyces cerevisiae that includes in its genome nucleic acids encoding cannabinoid biosynthetic pathway genes. A cannabinoid is produced by the recombinant cell in the presence of a cannabinoid precursor substrate and at least one of the cannabinoid biosynthetic pathway genes is from an organism other than Cannab...