ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,033, issued on April 29, was assigned to DSM IP ASSETS B.V. (Heerlen, Netherlands).
"Steviol glycoside transport" was invented by Viktor Marius Boer (Echt, Netherlands), Priscilla Zwartjens (Echt, Netherlands) and Eric Van Den Berg (Echt, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recombinant host capable of producing a steviol glycoside which overexpresses a polypeptide which mediates steviol glycoside transport and which polypeptide comprises the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 29 or an amino acid sequence having at least about 50% sequence identity thereto. A recombinant host capable of producing a steviol glycoside w...