US Patent Issued to Codexis on Sept. 8 for "Engineered DNA ligase variants" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,376, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Codexis Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Engineered DNA ligase variants" was invented by Jacob Hansen Artz (Redwood City, Calif.), Rachelle Copeland (Redwood City, Calif.), Jason Fell (Martinez, Calif.), Anders Matthew Knight (Mountain View, Calif.), Mikayla Jianghongxia Krawczyk (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mathew G. Miller (San Carlos, Calif.), Jovana Nazor (Milpitas, Calif.), Amani Shoubber (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jonathan Vroom (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to engineered DNA ligase polypeptides and compositions thereof, as well as polynucl...