US Patent Issued to Codexis on Nov. 25 for "Engineered galactose oxidase variant enzymes" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,099, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Codexis Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Engineered galactose oxidase variant enzymes" was invented by Christopher Micklitsch (Philadelphia), Oscar Alvizo (Fremont, Calif.), Jovana Nazor (Milpitas, Calif.), Harvinder Chagger Maniar (Hayward, Calif.), Mikayla Jianghongxia Krawczyk (Palo Alto, Calif.), Margie Tabuga Borra-Garske (Palo Alto, Calif.), Nandhitha Subramanian (Cambridge, Great Britain), Anna Fryszkowska (New York), Nicholas M. Marshall (Rahway, N.J.), Agustina Rodriguez-Granillo (Rahway, N.J.), Deeptak Verma (Rahway, N.J.) and Dewan Andrews (Rahway, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Th...