US Patent Issued to HENKEL on Sept. 9 for "Washing and cleaning agents comprising protease and amylase" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,384, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HENKEL AG & Co. KGAA (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Washing and cleaning agents comprising protease and amylase" was invented by Christian Degering (Erkrath, Germany), Susanne Wieland (Dormagen, Germany), Klaus Dorra (Duesseldorf, Germany), Britta Strauss (Solingen, Germany), Nina Mussmann (Willich, Germany) and Thomas Weber (Weimar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing or cleaning agent may include at least one amylase and at least one protease with an amino acid sequence having at least 70% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence specified in SEQ ID NO:1 over the entire length the...