US Patent Issued to Novozymes on Sept. 9 for "Yeast expressing a heterologous trehalase for ethanol production" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,451, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Yeast expressing a heterologous trehalase for ethanol production" was invented by Michael Glenn Catlett (West Sacramento, Calif.), Monica Tassone (West Sacramento, Calif.), Paul Vincent Harris (Carnation, Wash.), Robert Lyle Osborne (Raleigh, N.C.), Shiro Fukuyama (Chiba, Japan), Tomoko Matsui (Chiba, Japan) and Ryoko Kataoka (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are recombinant fermenting organisms having a heterologous polynucleotide encoding an alpha-amylase and/or a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a trehalase. Also descri...