ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,022, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Viridos Inc. (La Jolla, Calif.).
"Recombinant algae having high lipid productivity" was invented by Eric R. Moellering (San Diego), Saheed Imam (San Diego), Luke Peach (San Diego), Ryan Kalb (San Diego) and Sarah Potts (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention involves the provision of recombinant algal mutants that have a genetic modification to a nucleic acid sequence encoding a trehalose biosynthetic enzyme, and/or a genetic modification to a nucleic acid encoding an RNA binding domain And in some embodiments either of these algal mutants can further have a genetic mutation to ...