US Patent Issued to CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY on March 17 for "Synthesis of human milk oligosaccharides by a beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase from Haloferula sp" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,599, issued on March 17, was assigned to CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"Synthesis of human milk oligosaccharides by a beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase from Haloferula sp" was invented by Zhengqiang Jiang (Beijing), Yihao Liu (Beijing), Shaoqing Yang (Beijing), Junwen Ma (Beijing), Qiaojuan Yan (Beijing) and Ting Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses the application of a Beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase (HaHex74) from Haloferula sp. in the synthesis of human milk oligosaccharides. The invention provides the use of HaHex74 protein or related biological materials thereof in any one of the following: synthe...