ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,939, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Novonesis Animal Biosolutions AG (Sisseln AG, Switzerland) and Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Animal feed compositions and uses thereof" was invented by Leticia Cardoso Bittencourt (Kaiseraugst, Switzerland), Rual Lopez-Ulibarri (Kaiseraugst, Switzerland) and Estefania Perez Calvo (Kaiseraugst, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a composition and/or an animal feed comprising polypeptides having muramidase activity and essential oils and uses thereof."

The patent was filed on Sept. 17, 2019, under Application No. 17/275,903.

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