ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,235, issued on March 11, was assigned to NOVOZYMES A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Liquid formation comprising GH10 xylanase and GH62 arabinofuranosidase" was invented by Yi Cao (Beijing), Yu Zhang (Beijing), Bernardo Vidal Jr. (Wake Forest, N.C.), Randall Scott Deinhammer (Wake Forest, N.C.), Mary Ann Stringer (Soborg, Denmark), Ye Liu (Beijing), Purna Venkatesh (Bangalore, Denmark) and Cui Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an improved process of treating crop kernels to provide a starch product of high quality suitable for conversion of starch into mono- and oligosaccharides, ethanol, sweetene...