US Patent Issued to DANSTAR FERMENT on Jan. 13 for "Host cells and their use for producing ribitol and further monosaccharides" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,848, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to DANSTAR FERMENT AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Host cells and their use for producing ribitol and further monosaccharides" was invented by Astrid Schafer (Reinach, Switzerland), Yiming Chang (Reinach, Switzerland) and Sumire Honda Malca (Reinach, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to host cells and their use wherein the host cells are capable of producing D-ribulose and incapable of or have a reduced capability of converting D-ribulose to a molecule other than ribitol, wherein the host cells comprise a heterologous nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide capa...