US Patent Issued to Novozymes on Sept. 16 for "Alpha-amylase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" (Indian, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,972, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Alpha-amylase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" was invented by Carsten Andersen (Vaerloese, Denmark), Chakshusmathi Ghadiyaram (Bangalore, India), Rajendra Kulothungan Sainathan (Bangalore, India), Padmavathi Balumuri (Chennai, India), Padma Venkatachalam Iyer (Mumbai, India), Iben Damager (Valby, Denmark), Astrid Munch (Frederiksberg, Denmark) and Sohel Dalal (Ahmedabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to alpha-amylase variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucle...