US Patent Issued to International N&H Denmark on Jan. 13 for "Culture and kit-of-part of bacterial strains" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,856, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to International N&H Denmark ApS (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark).

"Culture and kit-of-part of bacterial strains" was invented by Mikael Pianfetti (Ingrandes, France), Fabien Buret (La Rochelle, France) and Annie Mornet (Mondion, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application is directed to a method to manufacture pasta-filata cheese based on cultures comprising or consisting of either 1) at least a galactose-positive Streptococcus thermophilus strain as defined herein or 2) at least a Streptococcus thermophilus strain and a Lactococcus lactis strain, and to a stretched curd or cheese produced by ...