US Patent Issued to NOVOZYMES on Feb. 18 for "Compositions comprising a low pH alpha-amylase and a thermostable protease for liquefaction" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,785, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NOVOZYMES A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Compositions comprising a low pH alpha-amylase and a thermostable protease for liquefaction" was invented by Randy Deinhammer (Wake Forest, N.C.), Suzanne Clark (Youngsville, N.C.), Mauricio Quiros (Raleigh, N.C.), John Matthews (Louisburg, N.C.), Anne Glud Hjulmand (Raleigh, N.C.), Chee-Leong Soong (Raleigh, N.C.), Tomoko Matsui (Chiba, Japan) and Shinobu Takagi (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable alpha-amylase and ...