US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Nov. 25 for "Tropane alkaloid (TA) producing non-plant host cells, and methods of making and using the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,131, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Tropane alkaloid (TA) producing non-plant host cells, and methods of making and using the same" was invented by Christina D. Smolke (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Prashanth Srinivasan (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein, among other things, is an engineered non-plant cell that produces a tropane alkaloid product, a precursor of a tropane alkaloid product, or a derivative of a tropane alkaloid product. A method for producing a tropane alkaloid, a precursor of a tropane alkaloid product, or ...