ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,469, issued on June 24, was assigned to HENKEL AG & Co. KGAA (Duesseldorf, Germany).
"Proteases having improved enzyme stability in washing and cleaning agents III" was invented by Nina Mussmann (Willich, Germany), Susanne Wieland (Zons/Dormagen, Germany), Christian Degering (Erkrath, Germany), Layla Fernandez (Cologne, Germany), Sabine Griemert (Monheim am Rhein, Germany), Barbara Peiffer (Rommerskirchen, Germany), Michael Puls (Monheim am Rhein, 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 sequen...