ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,343, issued on April 22, was assigned to SYMRISE AG (Holzminden, Germany).
"Biotechnological production of diols" was invented by Dirk Fabritius (Ansbach, Germany), Stefan Lambrecht (Hehlen, Germany), Johannes Panten (Hoxter, Germany) and Marcus Eh (Holzminden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for the stereo selective production of a trans-diol or a cis-diol or a hydroxyketone comprising the step(s) (i) conversion of a trans-diol or a cis-diol to a hydroxyketone and/or (ii) conversion of a hydroxyketoneto a cis-diol or a trans-diol, catalyzed by an enzyme, which is encoded by a nucleic a...