US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army on March 4 for "Use of galacturonate and or galacturonate polymers in conjunction with carbohydrates to control metabolic state of organisms" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,111, issued on March 4, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Use of galacturonate and or galacturonate polymers in conjunction with carbohydrates to control metabolic state of organisms" was invented by Theresah N. K. Zu (Elkridge, Md.), Christian J. Sund (Bethesda, Md.), Sanchao Liu (Ellicott City, Md.) and Elliot S. Gerlach (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing chemicals includes providing fermentative cells; co-feeding any of galacturonate and galacturonate polymers with carbohydrates to the fermentative cells; and producing a che...