ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,996, issued on April 14, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Carbohydrate binding module variants and hybrid polypeptides comprising same" was invented by Peter Westh (Copenhagen, Denmark), Kim Borch (Birkerod, Denmark), Trine Soerensen (Copenhagen, Denmark), Michael Windahl (Stenlose, Denmark) and Brett McBrayer (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to cellobiohydrolase variants and carbohydrate binding module variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotide...