US Patent Issued to Codexis on Feb. 3 for "Peroxidase activity towards 10-acetyl-3,7-dihydroxyphenoxazine" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,314, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Codexis Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Peroxidase activity towards 10-acetyl-3,7-dihydroxyphenoxazine" was invented by Da Duan (Foster City, Calif.), Auric Anthony Sowell-Kantz (Mill Valley, Calif.), Aksiniya Lyubenova Petkova (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jovana Nazor (Milpitas, Calif.), Nandhitha Subramanian (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Oscar Alvizo (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides engineered peroxidase enzymes, polypeptides having peroxidase activity, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, as well as vectors and host cells comprising these polynucleot...