US Patent Issued to Chr. Hansen on Nov. 3 for "Lactic acid bacterial strains with improved texturizing properties" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,183, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Chr. Hansen A/S (Hoersholm, Denmark).

"Lactic acid bacterial strains with improved texturizing properties" was invented by Thomas Janzen (Hoersholm, Denmark), Ditte Christiansen (Hoersholm, Denmark), Jesper Broend (Hoersholm, Denmark), Victoria Prebner (Hoersholm, Denmark), Ilenia Manuguerra (Hoersholm, Denmark) and Geoffrey Ras (Hoersholm, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a novel Streptococcus thermophilus strain having improved texturizing properties, compositions comprising said strain as well as fermented products manufactured using said strain."

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