US Patent Issued to NOVOZYMES on Nov. 18 for "Enzyme variants and polynucleotides encoding the same" (Danish, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,540, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NOVOZYMES A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Enzyme variants and polynucleotides encoding the same" was invented by Torsten Bak Regueira (Vaerloese, Denmark), Bitten Plesner (Copenhagen, Denmark), Thomas Holberg Blicher (Copenhagen, Denmark), Anne Dorthe Houg (Copenhagen, Denmark), Sofia Arnehed (Tygelsjo, Sweden), Lars Lehmann Hylling Christensen (Alleroed, Denmark) and Carsten Andersen (Vaerloese, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to polypeptide having alpha-amylase activity. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides; nucleic ac...