ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,151, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Polypeptides having phospholipase C activity and polynucleotides encoding same" was invented by Dorotea Raventos Segura (Rungsted, Denmark), Robert Piotr Olinski (Vaerlose, Denmark), Kim Borch (Birkerod, Denmark), Allan Noergaard (Lyngby, Denmark), Jesper Brask (Vaerlose, Denmark), Rune Falkenberg Haller (Roskilde, Denmark) and Marianne Linde Damstrup (Gentofte, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of reducing the phospholipid content in an oil or fat composition and polypeptides having PI-specific phospholipase C ac...