US Patent Issued to DSM IP Assets on Sept. 16 for "Identification of an Alpha-1,2-fucosyltransferase for the in vivo production of pure LNFP-I" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,030, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DSM IP Assets B.V. (Heerlen, Denmark).

"Identification of an Alpha-1,2-fucosyltransferase for the in vivo production of pure LNFP-I" was invented by Manos Papadakis (Horsholm, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses the identification and introduction of a specific heterologous gene (denoted as smob), which encodes an Alpha-1,2-fucosyltransferase, into an LNT production strain to produce LNFP-I in particular.The smob gene originates from the organism Sulfuriflexus mobilis (https://www.dsmz.de/collection/catalogue/details/culture/DSM-102939), which is a sulfur-o...