ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,841, issued on July 8, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
"Amylase enzymes" was invented by Hugo Urbina (San Diego), Asfia Qureshi (San Diego), Adrienne Huston Davenport (Solana Beach, Calif.), Xuqiu Tan (San Diego), Jochen Kutscher (Balzheim, Germany), Andreas Funke (Dietenheim, Germany), Michael Seitter (Voehringen, Germany), Stefan Haefner (Speyer, Germany) and Anh-Huy Phan Le (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to variants of an alpha-amylase which have an increased exoamylase activity compared to the parent alpha-amylase. The present invention also relates to methods of m...