ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,641, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Mykito Sciences Inc (San Marino, Calif.).
"Methods of making chitosan" was invented by Ilya Tolstorukov (Claremont, Calif.), Charles Taylor (Claremont, Calif.), Animesh Ray (Claremont, Calif.), Cameron Bardliving (Blue Bell, Pa.) and Brent Chamberlain (Claremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making a chitosan product from yeast cells is disclosed herein. Yeast cells are cultured to form a biomass of yeast cells. The yeast cells are induced to undergo meiosis causing the yeast cells to form asci containing ascospores wherein each ascospore contains a chitosan protective lay...