US Patent Issued to Church & Dwight on Feb. 24 for "Compositions and methods to increase production of isothiocyanates" (North Carolina, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,384, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Church & Dwight Co. Inc. (Princeton, N.J.).

"Compositions and methods to increase production of isothiocyanates" was invented by Noah Paul Zimmerman (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Amy Wescott (Rubicon, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for converting at least one glucosinolate to an isothiocyanate using Bacillus subtilis 839, Bacillus subtilis CO4_4, Pediococcus pentosaceus M3_H01, and/or Pediococcus pentosaceus M2_H12, or active variants thereof, are provided. Conversion of glucosinolates, such as glucoraphanin, to isothiocyanates, such as sulforaphane, leads to the stimula...