US Patent Issued to Chr. Hansen on Sept. 9 for "Production of human milk oligosaccharides in microbial hosts with engineered import / export" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,454, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Chr. Hansen A/S (Hoersholm, Denmark).

"Production of human milk oligosaccharides in microbial hosts with engineered import / export" was invented by Stefan Jennewein (Bad Honnef, Germany) and Dirk Wartenberg (Bonn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods for the production of oligosaccharides in genetically modified bacterial host cells, as well as to the genetically modified host cells used in the methods. The genetically modified host cell comprises at least one recombinant glycosyltransferase, and at least one nucleic acid sequence coding for a protei...