US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN on July 8 for "Lactobacillus mudanjiangensis strains and cellulase derived therefrom" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,842, issued on July 8, was assigned to UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN (Antwerp, Belgium).

"Lactobacillus mudanjiangensis strains and cellulase derived therefrom" was invented by Sander Wuyts (Antwerp, Belgium), Sarah Lebeer (Antwerp, Belgium) and Tom Eilers (Borgerhout, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention in particular relates to the identification of novel Lactobacillus mudanjiangensis strains which are characterized in having a whole genome GC content of less than 43%. Moreover, these strains are characterized by the expression of a novel cellulase enzyme, which has numerous applications in the fields of for example...