US Patent Issued to Codexis on June 30 for "Engineered transaminase biocatalysts and methods for synthesizing chiral amines" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,824, issued on June 30, was assigned to Codexis Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Engineered transaminase biocatalysts and methods for synthesizing chiral amines" was invented by Santhosh Sivaramakrishnan (Redwood City, Calif.), Ericka Bermudez (Aptos, Calif.), Nandhitha Subramanian (Cambridge, Great Britain), David Entwistle (San Carlos, Calif.) and Stephanie Marie Forget (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides engineered transaminase polypeptides for the production of amines, polynucleotides encoding the engineered transaminases, host cells capable of expressing the engineered transaminases,...