US Patent Issued to FERMENTA BIOTECH on June 9 for "Synthesis of cholesterol and vitamin D3 from phytosterols" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,762, issued on June 9, was assigned to FERMENTA BIOTECH Ltd. (Thane (West), India).

"Synthesis of cholesterol and vitamin D3 from phytosterols" was invented by Anupama Datla (Thane (West), India), Prashant Nagre (Thane (West), India), Jagdish Tamore (Thane, India), Manojkumar Sadanand Prabhu (Thane, India) and Sachin Vasant Kadam (Thane, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses novel method for synthesizing vegan cholesterol and vitamin D3 from inexpensive crude phytosterol."

The patent was filed on July 2, 2020, under Application No. 17/623,461.

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