US Patent Issued to CJ CHEILJEDANG on Nov. 4 for "Fructose-4-epimerase and method for preparing tagatose using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,236, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Fructose-4-epimerase and method for preparing tagatose using same" was invented by Young Mi Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Eul-Soo Park (Seoul, South Korea), Sun Mi Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Seong Bo Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Eun Jung Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a fructose-4-epimerase variant exhibiting tagatose conversion activity and a method for preparing tagatose using the same."

The patent was filed on Aug. 13, 2020, under Application No. 17/635,157.

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