ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,726, issued on July 29, was assigned to Conopco Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, Great Britain).
"Process to produce mono-rhamnolipids" was invented by Natalia Eliza Iyke Domeradzka (Liverpool, Great Britain), Dietmar Andreas Lang (Liverpool, Great Britain), Neil James Parry (Tarporley, Great Britain) and Mark Lawrence Thompson (Ellesmere Port, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a process to convert di-rhamnolipid to mono-rhamnolipid, using an Alpha-L-rhamnosidase enzyme which has a sequence identity of at least 70% with either SEQ ID. 1 or SEQ. ID 2."
The patent was filed on April 25, 2022, under Application...