ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,753, issued on June 3, was assigned to NUTRITION & BIOSCIENCES USA 4 INC. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Highly crystalline alpha-1,3-glucan" was invented by Kyle Hyun Chang Kim (Wilmington, Del.), Yefim Brun (Wilmington, Del.), Lucia Daniela Ionescu (Oegstgeest, Netherlands), Juan David Londono (Bear, Del.), Jorge Mok (Wilmington, Del.), James Joshua Ohane (West Chester, Pa.) and Lemuel Tong (Kingston, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compositions comprising insoluble alpha-glucan particles having a high degree of crystallinity and small particle size. For example, the alpha-glucan particles can have a degree of cryst...