US Patent Issued to DANISCO US on March 24 for "Variant alpha-amylases having amino acid substitutions that lower the PKA of the general acid" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,119, issued on March 24, was assigned to DANISCO US INC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Variant alpha-amylases having amino acid substitutions that lower the PKA of the general acid" was invented by Jonathan K. Lassila (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Patrica Tran (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 liquefaction and saccharification, cleaning starchy stains, textile desizing, baking and brewing."

The patent was filed on July 30, 2019, under Application No. 17/264,531.

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