US Patent Issued to FIRMENICH on Dec. 2 for "Biocatalytic method for the controlled degradation of terpene compounds" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,499, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FIRMENICH SA (Satigny, Switzerland).

"Biocatalytic method for the controlled degradation of terpene compounds" was invented by Michel Schalk (Satigny, Switzerland), Fabienne Deguerry (Satigny, Switzerland), Daniel Solis Escalante (Satigny, Switzerland), Pauline Anziani (Satigny, Switzerland) and Sabine Beccucci (Satigny, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are biocatalytic methods of producing terpene degradation products useful as starting material for the production of perfumery ingredients, such as, for example, ambrox. In particular novel terpene degrading polypeptides...