US Patent Issued to KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION on Sept. 29 for "Recombinant yeast Saccharomyces boulardii for producing neoagarooligosaccharides and use thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,434, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Recombinant yeast Saccharomyces boulardii for producing neoagarooligosaccharides and use thereof" was invented by Kyoung Heon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), So Ra Yu (Seoul, South Korea), Ye Rin Jin (Seoul, South Korea) and Eun Ju Yun (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a strain that produces neoagarooligosaccharides from agarose, which is a representative polysaccharide constituting red algae, using Saccharomyces boulardii, which is a probiotic yeast, a production method thereo...