US Patent Issued to Codexis on April 29 for "Engineered proline hydroxylase biocatalysts for hydroxylation of chemical compounds" (California, New Jersey, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,648, issued on April 29, was assigned to Codexis Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Engineered proline hydroxylase biocatalysts for hydroxylation of chemical compounds" was invented by Jovana Nazor (Milpitas, Calif.), Robert Osborne (Raleigh, N.C.), Jack Liang (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jonathan Vroom (South San Francisco, Calif.), Xiyun Zhang (Fremont, Calif.), David Entwistle (San Carlos, Calif.), Rama Voladri (Pleasanton, Calif.), Ravi David Garcia (Los Gatos, Calif.), Jeffrey C. Moore (Westfield, N.J.), Shane Grosser (Princeton, N.J.), Birgit Kosjek (Westfield, N.J.) and Matthew Truppo (Ocean Township, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Of...