US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Dec. 9 for "Production of oligosaccharides from polysaccharides" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,219, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Production of oligosaccharides from polysaccharides" was invented by Carlito B. Lebrilla (Davis, Calif.), Bruce German (Davis, Calif.), Matthew J. Amicucci (Woodland, Calif.), Eshani Nandita (Turlock, Calif.), Juan Castillo (Davis, Calif.) and David A. Mills (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synthetic oligosaccharides and mixtures thereof which resemble polysaccharides produced by plants, yeast and other fungi, bacteria, and algae are described. The oligosaccharides and compositions provided herein are useful as synbiotic...