US Patent Issued to Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences on March 18 for "Recombinant yeast and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,687, issued on March 18, was assigned to Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Tianjin, China) and Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (Beijing).

"Recombinant yeast and use thereof" was invented by Xueli Zhang (Tianjin, China), Luqi Huang (Beijing), Zhubo Dai (Tianjin, China), Dong Wang (Tianjin, China), Lili Zhang (Tianjin, China), Juan Guo (Beijing) and Yi Liu (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a recombinant yeast expressing germacrene A synthetase or a fusion protein thereof, wherein the fusion protein is germacrene A syntheta...