US Patent Issued to Chr. Hansen on Aug. 4 for "Stability of microbial composition, and manufacturing methods therefore" (Indian, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,470, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Chr. Hansen A/S (Hoersholm, Denmark).

"Stability of microbial composition, and manufacturing methods therefore" was invented by Pravin Gadkari (Andheri East, India), Furqan Ali (Andheri East, India), Surender Kumar Dhayal (Hoersholm, Denmark) and Deepak Jain (Andheri East, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to encapsulation of microbial cultures to improve the robustness and stability upon storage. In particular, the present invention relates to dry preparations of microbial cultures, such as lactic acid bacteria (LAB), coated by a fat-matrix that increase survivab...