ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,326, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Kerry Group Services International Ltd (Tralee, Ireland).
"Lactase enzymes with improved properties" was invented by Hans Raj (Hoersholm, Denmark), Pernille Smith (Broenshoej, Denmark), Thomas Eckhardt (Birkeroed, Denmark), Vojislav Vojinovic (Graested, Denmark), Charlotte Elisabeth Gruner Scholler (Virum, Denmark) and Johannes Maarten Van Den Brink (Herlev, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to new improved peptides and dimeric peptides exhibiting beta-galactosidase enzyme activity as well as methods using them for reducing the lactose content of milk-based comp...