US Patent Issued to Danstar Ferment on Sept. 30 for "Recombinant production of steviol glycosides" (Danish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,628, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Danstar Ferment AG (Schweiz, Switzerland).

"Recombinant production of steviol glycosides" was invented by Ganesh M. Kishore (Saint Louis, Mo.), Michael Motion (San Francisco), Paula M. Hicks (Bend, Ore.), Jorgen Hansen (Frederiksberg, Denmark), Jens Houghton Larsen (Birkerod, Denmark), Esben Halkjaer Hansen (Frederiksberg, Denmark), Michael Dalgaard Mikkelsen (Vaerlose, Denmark), Sabina Tavares (San Francisco) and Charlotte Blom (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Recombinant microorganisms, plants, and plant cells are disclosed that have been engineered to express novel recombinant...