ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,121, issued on June 30, was assigned to Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.).
"Use of mannose oligosaccharide compositions for feeding crustaceans" was invented by Virginia Calabuig Pons (Vilvoorde, Belgium) and Bruno Frederic Stengel (Brussels).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a feed composition suitable for feeding crustaceans comprising mannose oligosaccharides. The invention also relates to the use of mannose oligosaccharide compositions for feeding crustaceans. The invention also relates to crustaceans as a food source, in particular shrimp of the species Litopenaeus vannamei or Penaeus monodon, fed with t...