US Patent Issued to Korea University Research and Business Foundation on Sept. 9 for "Use of enzyme that cleaves both alpha- and beta- 1,4-glycosidic bonds" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,419, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Use of enzyme that cleaves both alpha- and beta- 1,4-glycosidic bonds" was invented by Kyoung Heon Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Do Hyoung Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to use of an enzyme that cleaves both alpha- and beta-1,4-glycosidic bonds and, more particularly, the present invention provides Alpha-L-fucosidase which has Alpha-1,4-glucosidase and Beta-1,4-galactosidase activities and thus is capable of producing glucose and/or galactose, which are monosacchari...