ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,407, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).
"Yeast expressing a heterologous phospholipase for ethanol production" was invented by Chee-Leong Soong (Raleigh, N.C.), James Ron Huffman (Wake Forest, N.C.), Monica Tassone (West Sacramento, Calif.), Jung Yi (Sacramento, Calif.) and Hanlin Ouyang (Raleigh, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are recombinant fermenting organisms having a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a phospholipase. Also described are processes for producing a fermentation product, such as ethanol, from starch or cellulosic-containing material with the recombinant fe...