ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,809, issued on April 21, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Amylase enzymes" was invented by Asfia Qureshi (San Diego), Zachary David Miles (San Diego), Xuqiu Tan (San Diego), Tong Li (San Diego), Jared Dennis (San Diego), Stefan Jenewein (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Priya Anand (Ludwishafen, Germany) and Jesper Nielsen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Genetically engineered enzymes having amylase enzyme activity, compositions comprising the enzymes, and methods of making and using the enzymes. Fragments of parent amylase enzymes activity and methods of using the fragments for making genetically engineered enzyme...