ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,532, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Codexis Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Polynucleotides encoding engineered imine reductases" was invented by Haibin Chen (Beijing), Steven J. Collier (Concord, Mass.), Jovana Nazor (Milpitas, Calif.), Joly Sukumaran (Singapore), Derek Smith (Singapore), Jeffrey C. Moore (Westfield, N.J.), Gregory Hughes (Scotch Plains, N.J.), Jacob Janey (New York), Gjalt W. Huisman (Redwood City, Calif.), Scott J. Novick (Palo Alto, Calif.), Nicholas J. Agard (San Francisco), Oscar Alvizo (Fremont, Calif.), Gregory A. Cope (Menlo Park, Calif.), Wan Lin Yeo (Singapore) and Stefanie Ng Minor (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the...