ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,618, issued on April 29, was assigned to International N&H Denmark Aps (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark).
"Lactic acid bacteria" was invented by Armelle Cochu-Blachere (Dange-Saint-Romain, France), Christophe Fremaux (Dange-Saint-Romain, France), Thomas Desfougeres (Dange-Saint-Romain, France) and Anais Jedrzejowski (Dange-Saint-Romain, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a lactose-positive, galactose-negative, Streptococcus thermophilus strain carrying a mutation in 2 or 3 genes selected from the group consisting of 1) a gene encoding a protein of the mannose-glucose-specific PTS and a glcK gene, 2) a gene encoding...