US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on April 15 for "Microbial contamination control in bioprocessing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,927, issued on April 15, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Microbial contamination control in bioprocessing" was invented by John D. Coates (Berkeley, Calif.), Ouwei Wang (Berkeley, Calif.) and Victor M. Reyes-Umana (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Biomanufacturing hygiene control in batch and fed-batch bioreactors is provided using a bioreactor employing a chlorite/Cld system, wherein the bioreactor comprises an engineered cultured cell expressing a recombinant cytoplasmic chlorite dismutase (cCld) sufficient to increase chlorite resistance of the cell, and chlorite suffic...