ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,110, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to DANISCO US INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Alpha-amylase combinatorial variants" was invented by William Cuevas (San Francisco), Vivek Sharma (Fremont, Calif.), David E. Wildes (San Francisco), Sang-Kyu Lee (Mountain View, Calif.) and Dina Finan (Pleasanton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are compositions and methods relating to variant alpha-amylases. The variant alpha-amylases are useful, for example, for starch liquefaction and saccharification, for cleaning starchy stains in laundry, dishwashing, and other applications, for textile processing (e.g., desizing), in animal feed for...