US Patent Issued to Danstar Ferment on Jan. 20 for "Process for displacing an exogenous enzyme" (New Hampshire, California, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,079, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Danstar Ferment AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Process for displacing an exogenous enzyme" was invented by Aaron Argyros (Lebanon, N.H.), Alexandra Panaitiu (Enfield, N.H.), Charles Rice (Plainfield, N.H.), Matthew B. Richards (Lebanon, N.H.), Tera Stoughtenger (New Lisbon, Wis.) and Kenneth Barrett (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure concerns a process for fermenting a biomass with a reduced dose of a purified exogenous enzyme (which can be, for example a purified exogenous glucoamylase). The process comprises contacting a biomass (which may comprise starch) with a recomb...