USPTO Issues Decisions on Isobutanol Patents

摘要

Butamax Advanced Biofuels, LLC announced the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Butamax Patent Number 8,129,162, issued from a series of applications covering modified KARI enzymes that optimize production of biobutanol by Butamax’s proprietary micro- organisms. These microorganisms are engineered with the isobutanol biosynthetic pathway invented by Butamax that includes five enzymatic steps that convert sugar to isobutanol.