US Patent Issued to Codexis on March 18 for "Ketoreductase polypeptides and polynucleotides" (New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,723, issued on March 18, was assigned to Codexis Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Ketoreductase polypeptides and polynucleotides" was invented by Jeffrey C. Moore (Westfield, N.J.), Jack Liang (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jonathan Penfield (Truckee, Calif.), Jovana Nazor (Milpitas, Calif.), Nikki Dellas (San Carlos, Calif.), Vesna Mitchell (Santa Clara, Calif.), Da Duan (Newark, Calif.), Iman Farasat (Rahway, N.J.), Agustina Rodriguez-Granillo (Rahway, N.J.), Grant Murphy (Rahway, N.J.) and Nicholas Marshall (Rahway, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides engineered ketoreductase and phosphite dehydrogenas...