ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. RE50,715, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to The Regents of the Univesity of California (Oakland, Calif.).
"Synthetic biochemistry molecular purge valve module that maintain co-factor balance" was invented by James U. Bowie (Culver City, Calif.), Paul H. Opgenorth (Los Angeles) and Tyler P. Korman (Sierra Madre, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a metabolic pathway for producing a metabolite, the metabolic pathway having a co-factor purge valve system for recycling a cofactor used in the metabolic pathway."
The patent was filed on Nov. 2, 2022, under Application No. 18/052,136.
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