US Patent Issued to TATE & LYLE SOLUTIONS USA on May 6 for "Engineered glycosyltransferases and steviol glycoside glucosylation methods" (California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,728, issued on May 6, was assigned to TATE & LYLE SOLUTIONS USA LLC (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

"Engineered glycosyltransferases and steviol glycoside glucosylation methods" was invented by Jonathan Vroom (South San Francisco, Calif.), Stephanie Sue Galanie (Knoxville, Tenn.), Nikki Dellas (San Carlos, Calif.), Jack Liang (South San Francisco, Calif.), Joyce Liu (Fremont, Calif.), David Entwistle (San Carlos, Calif.) and Courtney Dianne Moffett (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides engineered glycosyltransferase (GT) enzymes, polypeptides having GT activity, and polynucleotides encoding these enzym...