ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,707, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to S&P Ingredient Development LLC (Saint Louis Park, Minn.).

"Methods for organic acid production" was invented by Paul Blum (Monterey, Calif.), Sambasiva Rao Chigurupati (Omaha, Neb.) and Derrick Jermaine White (Lincoln, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microbial cell lines suitable for industrial-scale production of organic acids and methods of making and isolating such cell lines, and using the cell lines for production of organic acids."

The patent was filed on June 12, 2024, under Application No. 18/741,273.

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