US Patent Issued to Novozymes, Novozymes North America on March 18 for "Alpha-amylase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" (Danish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,720, issued on March 18, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) and Novozymes North America Inc. (Franklinton, N.C.).

"Alpha-amylase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" was invented by Carsten Andersen (Vaerloese, Denmark), Randall Deinhammer (Wake Forest, N.C.), Thomas Agersten Poulsen (Ballerup, Denmark), Miguel Duarte Toscano (Frederiksberg, Denmark), Peter Kamp Hansen (Lejre, Denmark), Henrik Friis-Madsen (Ballerup, Denmark), Anders Viksoe-Nielsen (Slangerup, Denmark), Signe Eskildsen Larsen (Lyngby, Denmark) and Lars L. H. Christensen (Alleroed, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention re...