US Patent Issued to Codexis on July 29 for "Enone reductases" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,674, issued on July 29, was assigned to Codexis Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Enone reductases" was invented by Christopher K. Savile (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vesna Mitchell (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xiyun Zhang (Fremont, Calif.) and Gjalt W. Huisman (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to engineered enone reductase polypeptides having improved properties, polynucleotides encoding the engineered polypeptides, related vectors, host cells, and methods for making the engineered enone reductase polypeptides. The disclosure also provides methods of using the engineered enone reductase polypeptides for che...