US Patent Issued to Codexis on March 11 for "Biocatalysts and methods for hydroxylation of chemical compounds" (American, Singaporean, British, Chinese, German, Indonesian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,234, issued on March 11, was assigned to Codexis Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Biocatalysts and methods for hydroxylation of chemical compounds" was invented by Haibin Chen (Beijing), Yong Koy Bong (Singapore), Fabien L. Cabirol (Dusseldorf, Germany), Anupam Gohel Prafulchandra (Bekasi, Indonesia), Tao Li (Cincinnati), Jeffrey C. Moore (Westfield, N.J.), Martina Quintanar-Audelo (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Yang Hong (Singapore), Steven J. Collier (Concord, Mass.) and Derek Smith (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides engineered proline hydroxylase polypeptides for the production of hydroxylated com...