US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY on Jan. 20 for "Applying optogenetic amplifier circuits for multi-phase light controlled microbial fermentations" (New Jersey, New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,038, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, N.J.).

"Applying optogenetic amplifier circuits for multi-phase light controlled microbial fermentations" was invented by Jose L. Avalos (Princeton, N.J.), Jared E. Toettcher (Princeton, N.J.), Evan M. Zhao (Clarence Center, N.Y.) and Makoto A. Lalwani (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a technique for constructing optogenetic amplifier and inverter circuits utilizing transcriptional activator/repressor pairs, in which expression of the transcriptional activator or repressor, respectively, is controlled by light-control...