US Patent Issued to Codexis on March 11 for "Transaminase reactions" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, New York, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,233, issued on March 11, was assigned to Codexis Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Transaminase reactions" was invented by Gregory Hughes (Scotch Plains, N.J.), Paul N. Devine (Tinton Falls, N.J.), Fred J. Fleitz (Germantown, Wis.), Brendan T. Grau (Warrington, Pa.), John Limanto (Metuchen, N.J.), Christopher Savile (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Emily Mundorff (Garden City, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods of using transaminase polypeptides in the synthesis of chiral amines from prochiral ketones."

The patent was filed on May 23, 2022, under Application No. 17/751,200.

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