US Patent Issued to Viridos on Sept. 2 for "Methods for producing a composition containing lipids from recombinant algae having high lipid productivity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,530, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Viridos Inc. (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Methods for producing a composition containing lipids from recombinant algae having high lipid productivity" was invented by Saheed Imam (La Jolla, Calif.), Eric R. Moellering (La Jolla, Calif.), Luke Peach (La Jolla, Calif.), Wiilliam F. Lambert (La Jolla, Calif.) and Kathleen Kwok (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides recombinant algal mutants that have a genetic modification to a gene or nucleic acid sequence encoding a WD40 repeat containing protein or domain. The genetic modification of one or more nucleic acid sequences e...