US Patent Issued to Newlight Technologies on May 27 for "Polyhydroxyalkanoate production methods and materials and microorganisms used in same" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,629, issued on May 27, was assigned to Newlight Technologies Inc. (Huntington Beach, Calif.).

"Polyhydroxyalkanoate production methods and materials and microorganisms used in same" was invented by Markus D. Herrema (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention relate generally to methods to generate microorganisms and/or microorganism cultures that exhibit the ability to produce polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) from carbon sources at high efficiencies. In several embodiments, preferential expression of, or preferential growth of microorganisms utilizing certain metabolic pathways, enables the high efficiency...