US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL N&H DENMARK on June 23 for "Use of low pH active alpha-1,4;/1,6-glycoside hydrolases (GLCH) as a feed additive for ruminants to enhance starch digestion" (Swedish, British, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,389, issued on June 23, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL N&H DENMARK APS (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark).

"Use of low pH active alpha-1,4;/1,6-glycoside hydrolases (GLCH) as a feed additive for ruminants to enhance starch digestion" was invented by Shukun Yu (Malmo, Sweden), Karsten Matthias Kragh (Hoejbjerg, Denmark) and Wenting Li (Wiltshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are uses of at least one alpha-1,4/1,6-glycoside hydrolase (GLCH) as a feed additive for a ruminant wherein said hydrolase: (a) has at least 20% activity at pH less than or equal to 3 in the presence of pepsin as compared to activity of the hydrola...