ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,195, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Codexis Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Engineered deoxyribose-phosphate aldolases" was invented by Da Duan (Foster City, Calif.), Oscar Alvizo (Fremont, Calif.), Jovana Nazor (Milpitas, Calif.), Harvinder Chagger Maniar (Hayward, Calif.), James Nicholas Riggins (San Francisco), Jonathan Vroom (South San Francisco, Calif.), Santhosh Sivaramakrishnan (Redwood City, Calif.), Hao Yang (Rahway, N.J.), Anna Fryszkowska (New York), Mark A. Huffman (Rahway, N.J.), Joshua N. Kolev (Rahway, N.J.), Iman Farasat (Rahway, N.J.), Agustina Rodriguez-Granillo (Rahway, N.J.) and Deeptak Verma (Rahway, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Pate...