ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,758, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Bio Capital Holdings LLC (Houston).

"Polyactive carbohydrates and methods of use thereof" was invented by Raul Cuero Rengifo (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are biological devices and methods for using the same to produce a polyactive carbohydrate. The biological devices include microbial cells transformed with a DNA construct containing genes for producing a chitin synthase, a chitosanase, 5 and a chitin deacetylase, and, optionally, lipase, regulatory sequence CHR1, transglycosylase, dehydrogenase, and/or (1-less than3), (1-less than4)-Beta-glucan synthase. Met...