US Patent Issued to DANISCO US on March 17 for "Alpha-amylase combinatorial variants" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,548, issued on March 17, was assigned to DANISCO US INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Alpha-amylase combinatorial variants" was invented by Luis G. Cascao-Pereira (Redwood City, Calif.), Dina Finan (Pleasanton, Calif.), David Edward Wildes (San Francisco), Pieter Augustinus (Palo Alto, Calif.), Roel Hermant (Palo Alto, Calif.), Monica Ocha Ruiz (Palo Alto, Calif.), Dewy Van Tol (Palo Alto, Calif.), Richard R Bott (Kirkland, Wash.) and Marc Kolkman (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are compositions and methods relating to variant alpha-amylases. The variant alpha-amylases are useful, for example, for starch liquefa...