US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 22 for "Host cells and methods for reducing isoprenoid precursors and isoprenoids by geranylgeranyl reductase" (American, French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,905, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Host cells and methods for reducing isoprenoid precursors and isoprenoids by geranylgeranyl reductase" was invented by Corey Meadows (Berkeley, Calif.), Brett Garabedian (Basel, Switzerland), Florence Mingardon (Oakland, Calif.), Angelique Chanal (Puteaux, France) and Taek Soon Lee (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides for a genetically modified host cell capable of reducing one or more isoprenoid, or precursor thereof, said genetically modified host cell comprising one or more geranylgeran...