ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,462, issued on May 13, was assigned to Codexis Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Engineered transaminase polypeptides for industrial biocatalysis" was invented by Scott J. Novick (Palo Alto, Calif.), Nikki Dellas (San Carlos, Calif.), Oscar Alvizo (Fremont, Calif.), Ravi David Garcia (Los Gatos, Calif.), Charlene Ching (San Jose, Calif.) and David Entwistle (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides engineered transaminase polypeptides useful for the synthesis of chiral amine compounds under industrially relevant conditions. The invention also provides polynucleotides encoding the engineered transam...