US Patent Issued to Chr. Hansen on March 24 for "Method for preparing cultures of lactic acid bacteria" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,099, issued on March 24, was assigned to Chr. Hansen A/S (Hoersholm, Denmark).

"Method for preparing cultures of lactic acid bacteria" was invented by Neda Faraghiparapari (Hoersholm, Denmark), Marie Penderup Jensen (Hoersholm, Denmark), Jakub Kovacs (Hoersholm, Denmark) and Anisha Goel (Hoersholm, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microbial starter cultures. More specifically, a method for preparing a microbial culture such as a lactic acid bacteria (LAB) starter culture wherein at least one microbial strain such as a lactic acid bacteria and at least one inactivated yeast strain is inoculated in a culture medium."

The patent...