US Patent Issued to KAO on Sept. 15 for "Mutant protease and use thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,692, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mutant protease and use thereof" was invented by Takahiro Hioki (Wakayama, Japan), Daichi Yamashita (Utsunomiya, Japan) and Akihito Kawahara (Wakayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polypeptide having a glycine-glycine bond-degrading activity and an improved microbicidal activity, and a method for using the same. A polypeptide having an amino acid sequence having at least 80% identity to SEQ ID NO: 2, the polypeptide having a modification involving one or more amino acid residues at positions 116, 170, 172, 173, 174, 178, and/or 179 in the amino acid sequence of S...