ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,146, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Manus Bio Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Microbial production of mogrol and mogrosides" was invented by Michelle N. Goettge (Cambridge, Mass.), Ryan N. Philippe (Orleans, Canada), Ajikumar Parayil Kumaran (Cambridge, Mass.), Christine Nicole S. Santos (Cambridge, Mass.), Jason Eric Donald (Cambridge, Mass.), Christopher Frei (Cambridge, Mass.), Aaron Love (Cambridge, Mass.), Kaitlin Chambers (Cambridge, Mass.), Joyce Samson (Cambridge, Mass.) and Christopher Toomey (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides host cells and methods for making mogrol glycosides, inc...