US Patent Issued to DANSTAR FERMENT on Oct. 14 for "Process for reducing the activity of microbial contamination in a yeast medium" (New Hampshire, Utah, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,976, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DANSTAR FERMENT AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Process for reducing the activity of microbial contamination in a yeast medium" was invented by Jeffery R. Broadbent (Amalga, Utah), James L. Steele (Lebanon, N.H.), Brooks Henningsen (Salisbury, N.H.), Ekkarat Phrommao (Lebanon, N.H.) and Fernanda Cristina Firmino (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an antimicrobial composition as well as a process using same to limit microbial activity in a yeast medium. The antimicrobial composition includes at least one weak acid, optionally in combination with an acid stable bacter...