US Patent Issued to BONUMOSE on Sept. 15 for "Enzymatic production of allulose" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,685, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to BONUMOSE INC. (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Enzymatic production of allulose" was invented by Daniel Joseph Wichelecki (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to improved processes for the enzymatic production of allulose using enzymes which have been characterized as having improved expression, improved stability, and low allulose to fructose conversion activity, relative to enzymes in other allulose production methods. Improved processes include steps of converting fructose-6-phosphate to allulose 6-phopsphate A6P) using an allulose 6-phosphate epimerase, and c...