US Patent Issued to Danisco US on May 20 for "AprL-clade protease variants and uses thereof" (Dutch, American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,205, issued on May 20, was assigned to Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"AprL-clade protease variants and uses thereof" was invented by David A. Estell (San Mateo, Calif.), Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands), Marc Anton Bernhard Kolkman (Oegstgeest, Netherlands), Rie Mejldal (Ostbirk, Denmark), Katherine Augustyn (San Francisco), Lilia Maria Babe (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Richard R Bott (Kirkland, Wash.), Jian Yao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Roopa Santosh Ghirnikar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides AprL-clade protease enzymes, including variant AprL-clade protease enzymes, nucl...