ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,222, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to FrieslandCampina Nederland B.V. (Amersfoort, Netherlands).
"Method for preparing galacto-oligosacharides from lactulose" was invented by Linqiu Cao (Wageningen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process for the preparation of a galacto-oligosaccharide preparation, which process comprises the step of contacting a lactulose-containing feed with a beta-galactosidase derived from Papiliotrema terrestris. The resulting galacto-oligosaccharide is acceptable to subjects suffering from GOS-related allergy and subjects having lactose intolerance."
The patent was filed on Dec. 2, 2020, under A...