US Patent Issued to Codexis on May 20 for "Engineered biocatalysts and methods for synthesizing chiral amines" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,201, issued on May 20, was assigned to Codexis Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Engineered biocatalysts and methods for synthesizing chiral amines" was invented by Weng Lin Tang (Singapore), Helen Hsieh (Singapore), Son Pham (Singapore), Derek Smith (Singapore) and Steven J. Collier (Concord, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides engineered transaminase polypeptides for the production of amines, polynucleotides encoding the engineered transaminases, host cells capable of expressing the engineered transaminases, and methods of using the engineered transaminases to prepare compounds useful in the production ...