ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,325, issued on June 17, was assigned to Codexis Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Engineered transaminase polypeptides" was invented by Scott J. Novick (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Nikki Dellas (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides engineered transaminase polypeptides useful for the synthesis of chiral amine compounds under industrially relevant conditions. The disclosure also provides polynucleotides encoding the engineered transaminase polypeptides, host cells capable of expressing the engineered transaminases, and methods of using the engineered transaminases for the production of chiral amine c...