ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,757, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Production of milk oligosaccharides in plants" was invented by Patrick M. Shih (Berkeley, Calif.) and Collin Robert E. Barnum (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mammalian milk oligosaccharides (MMO) are produced in plants engineered to express recombinant MMO biosynthetic pathways."

The patent was filed on Aug. 15, 2024, under Application No. 18/805,564.

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