US Patent Issued to Trustees of Tufts College on Feb. 17 for "Galactose to tagatose isomerization at moderate temperatures with high conversion and productivity" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,073, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Mass.).

"Galactose to tagatose isomerization at moderate temperatures with high conversion and productivity" was invented by Nikhil U. Nair (Medford, Mass.) and Josef R. Bober (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are components and methods for preparing tagatose from galactose via isomerization reactions using engineered components. The engineered components include microbial cells and methods for preparing microbial cells that have been engineered to catalyze isomerization of galactose to tagatose, in which the microbial cells express cyt...