US Patent Issued to NUTRITION & BIOSCIENCES USA 4 on Dec. 2 for "Poly alpha-1,6-glucan derivatives and compositions comprising same" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,338, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NUTRITION & BIOSCIENCES USA 4 INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Poly alpha-1,6-glucan derivatives and compositions comprising same" was invented by Zhengzheng Huang (Hockessin, Del.), Douglas J. Adelman (Wilmington, Del.), Neil Thomas Fairweather (Liberty Town, Ohio), Kristi Lynn Fliter (Cincinnati), David Good (Cincinnati), Helen S.M. Lu (Wallingford, Pa.), Weiming Qiu (Wilmington, Del.), Gang Si (Newcastle Upon Tyne, Great Britain) and Mark Robert Sivik (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to poly alpha-1,6-glucan derivatives comprising poly alpha-1,6-glucan substituted wit...