ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,807, issued on May 19, was assigned to AMANO ENZYME INC. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Modified transglutaminase" was invented by Kazunori Yoshida (Kakamigahara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to find a new mutation effective for improving transglutaminase, and to provide a highly useful modified transglutaminase. Disclosed is a highly useful modified transglutaminase having an amino acid substitution that results in a reduction in temperature stability, an improvement in heat resistance, an improvement in oxidation resistance, an improvement in reactivity, or conversion into deamidase."
The patent was...