US Patent Issued to DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET, INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONMENT on May 19 for "Oxidative breakdown of polysaccharides" (Danish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,806, issued on May 19, was assigned to DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark) and INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONMENT (Paris).

"Oxidative breakdown of polysaccharides" was invented by Maher Abou Hachem (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark), Majid Haddad Momeni (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark) and Jean-Guy Berrin (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns oxidative degradation of polysaccharides, and provides a composition, kit, and method for increasing the efficiency of recalcitrant cellulose degradation, using an auxiliary activity family 7 (AA7) enzymes and a pol...