ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,028, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NC BIT INC. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).
"Non-toxic protease having improved productivity" was invented by Young Doug Sohn (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Ho-Jun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Ui Jung Kwon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jong-Tak Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyoung Soo Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a mutated non-toxic protease in which the amino acid cysteine (Cys) at position 430 of a non-toxic protease represented by the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 is substituted with an amino acid other than cysteine. According to the...