ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,108, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Novozyms A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).
"Methods of reducing odor" was invented by Carsten Hoerslev Hansen (Vaerloese, Denmark), Yitong Liu (Beijing), Steffen Kayser (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Vibeke Skovgaard Nielsen (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention related to lipase variants having lipase activity and having between 60% to less than 100% sequence identity to a parent lipase or a fragment thereof, wherein the variant comprises one or more substitutions selected from H198A/D/E/F/G/I/L/N/Q/S/T/V/Y, F7H/K/R, F51A/I/L/V/Y, T143A/G/SN, A150G/V, N200H/K/Q/R, I202G/L...