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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,104, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Codexis Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Engineered sucrose phosphorylase variant enzymes" was invented by Jonathan Vroom (South San Francisco, Calif.), Santhosh Sivaramakrishnan (Redwood City, Calif.) and Nandhitha Subramanian (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides engineered sucrose phosphorylase (SP) enzymes, polypeptides having SP activity, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, as well as vectors and host cells comprising these polynucleotides and polypeptides. Methods for producing SP enzymes are also provided. The present invention furth...