Butamax adds another patent for biobutanol production

摘要

Butamax recently secured another patent 8,273,558 ('558 patent). The innovative '558 patent technology provides a path to commercial production volumes of biobutanol. Butamax has specifically designed its microorganism to be cost-effective for all markets, but particularly for biofuel blending. While unmodified yeast may produce trace amounts of isobutanol via a different pathway than Butamax's inventions, these unmodified yeasts only express certain enzymes in smaller compartments of the cell.