ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,411, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to KIKKOMAN Corp. (Noda, Japan).
"Method for producing selenoneine" was invented by Seiichi Hara (Noda, Japan) and Keiichi Ichikawa (Noda, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for producing selenoneine that allows production of selenoneine at higher yields, even if an inorganic selenium compound is used as a selenium compound. This purpose can be achieved by a method for producing selenoneine, comprising the step of applying histidine and a selenium compound to a transformant to obtain selenoneine, wherein the transformant has at least on...