US Patent Issued to Chr. Hansen on Feb. 3 for "Production of lactase enzymes using altered regulation strains" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,929, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Chr. Hansen A/S (Hoersholm, Denmark).

"Production of lactase enzymes using altered regulation strains" was invented by Hans Raj (Hoersholm, Denmark), Charlotte Elisabeth Gruner Scholler (Virum, Denmark), Kim Ib Soerensen (Hoersholm, Denmark), Johannes Maarten Van Den Brink (Herlev, Denmark), Ahmad Zeidan (Hoersholm, Denmark), Martin Holm Rau (Hoersholm, Denmark), Paula Gaspar (Hoersholm, Denmark) and George Nabin Baroi (Hoersholm, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to new improved methods for expressing native lactases in their native hosts. Methods for homologou...