US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture on April 15 for "Synthetic enzyme complexes for in vitro rubber production" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,974, issued on April 15, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington).

"Synthetic enzyme complexes for in vitro rubber production" was invented by Grisel P. Ponciano (Castro Valley, Calif.), Colleen M. McMahan (Sausalito, Calif.), Paul Hoeprich (Sacramento, Calif.) and Patrick Scannon (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are recombinant enzymes derived from various rubber-producing plants and the use of those enzymes in the production of natural rubber outside of plant tissues. Systems and methods for the utilization of these enzymes in the producti...