US Patent Issued to STRAINCHEM on June 30 for "Method for synthesizing macromolecules in solution from carbohydrate derivative units" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,608, issued on June 30, was assigned to STRAINCHEM (Saint-Beauzire, France).

"Method for synthesizing macromolecules in solution from carbohydrate derivative units" was invented by Jean-Jacques Youte Tendoung (Pont du Chateau, France) and Audrey Serre (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for synthesising macromolecules made up of units U that are mostly monosaccharides or monosaccharide derivatives, by successive elongation of a first unit U1 attached by a covalent bond to an anchor molecule soluble in organic solvents. The elongation takes place by coupling with a monomer or olig...