US Patent Issued to Danisco US on Sept. 9 for "Compositions and methods comprising variant microbial proteases" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,420, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods comprising variant microbial proteases" was invented by Joshua R. Basler (Palo Alto, Calif.), Luis G. Cascao-Pereira (Redwood City, Calif.), David A. Estell (San Francisco) and James T. Kellis Jr. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides variant subtilisins and compositions comprising at least one variant subtilisin set forth herein, as well as methods for using these variants and compositions. In some embodiments, the present invention provides variant subtilisins suitable for laundry cleani...