US Patent Issued to SAMYANG on Sept. 8 for "Glycosyltransferase and Steviol glucoside preparation method using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,374, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMYANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Glycosyltransferase and Steviol glucoside preparation method using same" was invented by Jeong Min Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyeok-Jin Ko (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jun-Ho Moon (Seoul, South Korea) and Eunsoo Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a glycosyltransferase and a composition and method for producing steviol glycoside using the same, and more particularly, a glycosyltransferase of rebaudioside that transfers glucose to steviol glycoside, a recombinant strain expressing the enzyme, and a m...