US Patent Issued to Novozymes on Dec. 16 for "Mannanase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" (Indian, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,606, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Mannanase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" was invented by Vasudeva Prahlada Rao (Bangalore, India), Geetha Hiremath Mendez (Bangalore, India), Christian Isak Joergensen (Bagsvaerd, Denmark), Akshatha Venugopalan (Shornur, India), Naveen Shivanand Raikar (Davangere, India), Silja Poulose (Bangalore, India), Lars Olsen (Valby, Denmark), Allan Svendsen (Hoersholm, Denmark), Jonatan Ulrik Fangel (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) and Subith Krishna (Copenhagen NV, India).

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