US Patent Issued to NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY on Feb. 24 for "Compositions and methods for producing human milk oligosaccharides" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,732, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Compositions and methods for producing human milk oligosaccharides" was invented by Jose M. Bruno-Barcena (Raleigh, N.C.), Suzanne Dagher (Raleigh, N.C.) and Maria Andrea Azcarate-Peril (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions and methods related to the production of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). In particular, the present disclosure provides compositions and methods for converting lactose and N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) into N-acetyllactosamine (LacNAc)-enriched galactooligosaccharide (GO...