ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,587, issued on April 21, was assigned to INSTITUT PASTEUR (Paris), Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture l'alimentation et l'environnement (Paris), INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE TOULOUSE (Toulouse Cedex, France) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris).
"Protected tetrasaccharides, their process of preparation and their use as transglucosylase acceptor substrates in the chemo-enzymatic synthesis of Shigella flexneri specific oligosaccharides" was invented by Laurence Mulard (Le Kremlin Bicetre, France), Guillaume Le Heiget (Paris), Zhaohu Hu (Wuhan, China), Louis-Antoine Barel (Royat, France), Isabelle Andre (Toulouse, France), Claire Mo...