ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,386, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to HENKEL AG & Co. KGAA (Duesseldorf, Germany).
"Stability-enhanced protease variants VI" was invented by Christian Degering (Erkrath, Germany), Susanne Wieland (Zons/Dormagen, Germany), Nina Mussmann (Willich, Germany) and Inken Prueser (Duesseldorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proteases may include an amino acid sequence having at least 70% sequence identity with the amino acid sequence given in SEQ ID NO:1 over its entire length. The proteases may further have, in each case based on the numbering according to SEQ ID NO:1, amino acid substitutions 9T, 130D/V, 133A, 144K, 217M, 252T an...