US Patent Issued to NIIGATA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, FUJI OIL on Dec. 9 for "Lipid production control factor for oleaginous yeast" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,415, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NIIGATA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Niigata, Japan) and FUJI OIL Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Lipid production control factor for oleaginous yeast" was invented by Hiroaki Takaku (Niigata, Japan), Harutake Yamazaki (Niigata, Japan), Hideo Araki (Tsukubamirai, Japan), Sachiyo Aburatani (Tokyo) and Katsuro Yaoi (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lipid production control factors in yeasts are provided. A yeast 115694 gene, a yeast 4888 gene, and a yeast 45559 gene are provided as lipid production control factors."

The patent was filed on Feb. 2, 2021, under Application No. 17/802,...