US Patent Issued to Arzeda on Nov. 3 for "Methods and compositions for preparing tagatose from fructose" (Wisconsin, Washington, Tennessee, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,249, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Arzeda Corp. (Seattle).

"Methods and compositions for preparing tagatose from fructose" was invented by Alexandre Zanghellini (Memphis, Tenn.), Kyle Roberts (San Marcos, Calif.), Michael Charles Milner Cockrem (Madison, Wis.) and Christopher Dunckley (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for preparing tagatose from fructose, more particularly, compositions comprising thermophilic fructose C4-epimerases derived from thermophilic microorganisms and methods for preparing tagatose from fructose using the compositions."

The patent was filed on Nov. 21, ...