US Patent Issued to Ynsect on May 27 for "Chitin and process for producing chitin and/or chitosan by the enzymatic and chemical pathway" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,422, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ynsect (Evry-Courcouronnes, France).

"Chitin and process for producing chitin and/or chitosan by the enzymatic and chemical pathway" was invented by Lorena Sanchez (Juvisy-sur-Orge, France), Cecilia Socolsky (Lille, France), Valerie Alezra (Paris), Corentin Le Berre (Juvisy-sur-Orge, France), Benedicte Lorette (Montlhery, France), Sophie Laurent (Nantes, France) and Nathalie Berezina (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to chitin with a differential purity of more than 97.75% and to a process for producing chitin and/or chitosan by the enzymatic and chemical pathwa...