US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 4 for "Microorganisms and methods for producing cannabinoids and cannabinoid derivatives" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,327, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Microorganisms and methods for producing cannabinoids and cannabinoid derivatives" was invented by Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, Calif.), Leo D'Espaux (San Francisco), Jeff Wong (Berkeley, Calif.), Xiaozhou Luo (Berkeley, Calif.), Michael Reiter (Berkeley, Calif.), Charles Denby (Berkeley, Calif.) and Anna Lechner (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides genetically modified host cells that produce a cannabinoid, a cannabinoid derivative, a cannabinoid precursor, or a cannabinoid precursor derivat...