ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,498, issued on April 7, was assigned to DKS Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method for producing cellooligosaccharide" was invented by Rina Murase (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by which a cellooligosaccharide can be produced inexpensively at high percentage yield is provided. In the method for producing a cellooligosaccharide according to an embodiment, at least one primer selected from the group consisting of glucose, cellobiose, and derivatives in which anomeric positions of glucose and cellobiose are modified and sucrose are subjected to, in the presence of phosphoric acid, actions of sucrose phosphorylase and ce...