ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,542, issued on March 25, was assigned to NOVOZYMES A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Detergent composition comprising protease and amylase variants" was invented by Carsten Andersen (Vaerloese, Denmark), Yanfei Wang (Beijing), Wenwen Tao (Beijing), Bitten Plesner (Copenhagen NV, Denmark) and Elena Genesca Pont (Kobenhavn S, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to detergent compositions comprising protease variants and alpha-amylases or variants thereof. Furthermore, the present invention relates to methods of using the detergent compositions."

The patent was filed on May 6, 2021, under Application No. 17/31...