US Patent Issued to FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JUELICH on May 27 for "D-xylose dehydrogenase from coryneform bacteria and process for preparing D-xylonate" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,608, issued on May 27, was assigned to FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JUELICH GMBH (Jublich, Germany).

"D-xylose dehydrogenase from coryneform bacteria and process for preparing D-xylonate" was invented by Niklas Tenhaef (Aachen, Germany), Stephan Noack (Wegberg, Germany), Christian Bruesseler (Krefeld, Germany) and Jan Marienhagen (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A D-xylose dehydrogenase comprising an amino acid sequence that has at least 70% identity to the amino acid sequence according to SEQ ID NO. 2 or fragments thereof."

The patent was filed on June 29, 2019, under Application No. 17/258,832.

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