Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Engineering Human Skin Microbes To Produce Mosquito Repellent Terpenes' Filed by Massachusetts Institute Of Technology

MUMBAI, India, April 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617001380 A) filed by Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.A., on Jan. 6, for 'engineering human skin microbes to produce mosquito repellent terpenes.'

Inventor(s) include Hassan, Mohamed, Ibrahim; Voigt, Christopher, A; Lin, Geng-Min; and Yoo, Daniel.

The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Engineered bacterial cells for producing a mosquito-repelling terpene are provided, that include an engineered terpene biosynthetic pathway introduced into a bacterial cell that is not otherwise capable of producing the terpene, such that the engineered bacterial cell is capable of producing the mosquito-repelling terpene, and methods for using such cells to repel mosquitos."

The patent application was internationally filed on Apr. 05, 2024, under International application No.PCT/US2024/023221.

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