US Patent Issued to Novozymes on Dec. 30 for "Mannanase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" (Danish, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,671, issued on Dec. 30, 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 (Copenhagen, Denmark), Subith Krishna (Bangalore, India), Pengfei Tian (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Rajendra Kulothungan Sainathan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent &...