US Patent Issued to AB Enzymes Finland on July 14 for "Fungal cellulase variants with improved stability" (German, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,092, issued on July 14, was assigned to AB Enzymes Finland Oy (Finland).

"Fungal cellulase variants with improved stability" was invented by Kari Juntunen (Rajamaki, Finland), Leena Valtakari (Rajamaki, Finland), Susanna Makinen (Rajamaki, Finland), Marika Alapuranen (Rajamaki, Finland), Hendrik Hellmuth (Darmstadt, Germany), Maike Anders (Idar-Oberstein, Germany), Marc Mennicken (Aachen, Germany), Ulrich Schwaneberg (Aachen, Germany), David Schonauer (Aachen, Germany), Pentti Ojapalo (Rajamaki, Finland) and Terhi Puranen (Rajamaki, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to novel variants of fungal endoglucanase...