US Patent Issued to Novozymes on April 15 for "Processes for producing fermentation products and compositions used therein" (American, Chinese, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,967, issued on April 15, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Processes for producing fermentation products and compositions used therein" was invented by Hong Zhi Huang (Beijing), Jiyin Liu (Raleigh, N.C.), Hui Xu (Wake Forest, N.C.), Elena Vlasenko (Davis, Calif.), Brett McBrayer (Sacramento, Calif.), Ye Liu (Beijing), Lan Tang (Beijing), James Ron Huffman (Wake Forest, N.C.) and Nikolaj Spodsberg (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having beta-glucanase activity, catalytic domains, carbohydrate binding modules and polynucleotides encoding the poly...