US Patent Issued to Chr. Hansen on July 28 for "Sialyltransferases and their use in producing sialylated oligosaccharides" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,524, issued on July 28, was assigned to Chr. Hansen A/S (Hoersholm, Denmark).

"Sialyltransferases and their use in producing sialylated oligosaccharides" was invented by Stefan Jennewein (Bad Honnef, Germany) and Dirk Wartenberg (Bonn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, genetically engineered cells, sialyltransferases and nucleic acid molecules encoding said sialyltransferases for producing sialylated oligosaccharides as well as the use of said sialylated oligosaccharides for providing nutritional compositions."

The patent was filed on July 25, 2018, under Application No. 16/634,000.

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