US Patent Issued to NUTRITION & BIOSCIENCES USA 4 on May 12 for "Dextran-alpha-glucan graft copolymers and derivatives thereof" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,126, issued on May 12, was assigned to NUTRITION & BIOSCIENCES USA 4 INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Dextran-alpha-glucan graft copolymers and derivatives thereof" was invented by Douglas J. Adelman (Wilmington, Del.), Natnael Behabtu (Oegstgeest, Netherlands), Christian Peter Lenges (Wilmington, Del.), Kyle Kim (Wilmington, Del.), Geert Van Der Kraan (Oegstgeest, Netherlands) and Rong Guan (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compositions comprising at least one alpha-glucan graft copolymer derivative compound (e.g., ether or ester) having a degree of substitution (DoS) up to about 3.0. The precursors of th...