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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 1977
Filed:
Feb. 05, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
195 30 ; 195 62 ; 195 / ;
Abstract
A process for preparing L-tartaric acid, which comprises contacting a microorganism of the genus Nocardia having the ability to produce an enzyme which cleaves and hydrolyzes the epoxy ring of cis-epoxysuccinic acid, or an enzyme isolated therefrom, with cis-epoxysuccinic acid or its derivatives in an aqueous medium, and recovering the resulting L-tartaric acid.