US Patent Issued to GLAXOSMITHKLINE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT on June 17 for "Carboxyesterase biocatalysts" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,327, issued on June 17, was assigned to GLAXOSMITHKLINE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT Ltd. (Stevenage, Great Britain).

"Carboxyesterase biocatalysts" was invented by Kristin K. Brown (Collegeville, Pa.), Brent M. Dorr (Collegeville, Pa.), Douglas E. Fuerst (Collegeville, Pa.), Katherine Joyce Honicker (Collegeville, Pa.), Lydia Sanchez Jordan (Collegeville, Pa.), James Patrick Morrison (Collegeville, Pa.), Nikolay V. Plotnikov (Collegeville, Pa.), Markus Schober (Stevenage, Great Britain) and Rama Voladri (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides engineered carboxyesterase enzymes that h...