US Patent Issued to TATE & LYLE SOLUTIONS USA on Oct. 28 for "Engineered glycosyltransferases and steviol glycoside glucosylation methods" (California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,682, issued on Oct. 28, 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.), Jack Liang (South San Francisco, Calif.), Joyce Liu (Fremont, Calif.), Nikki Dellas (San Carlos, Calif.), Melissa Ann Mayo (Foster City, Calif.) and David Entwistle (San Carlos, Calif.).

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 enzy...