US Patent Issued to Chr. Hansen on June 24 for "Fermentative production of oligosaccharides by total fermentation utilizing a mixed feedstock" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,473, issued on June 24, was assigned to Chr. Hansen A/S (Hoersholm, Denmark).

"Fermentative production of oligosaccharides by total fermentation utilizing a mixed feedstock" was invented by Stefan Jennewein (Bad Honnef, Germany), Dirk Wartenberg (Gau-Algesheim, Germany) and Katja Parschat (Bonn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are genetically engineered microbial cells for the production of oligosaccharides comprising a galactose-Beta1,4-glucose moiety at their reducing end, wherein said microbial cells are able to produce said oligosaccharides in the absence of exogenously added lactose, and a method of producing sa...