US Patent Issued to Novozymes on Aug. 18 for "Xylanase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,744, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Xylanase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" was invented by Annette Helle Johansen (Bronshoj, Denmark), Steffen Danielsen (Stenlose, Denmark), Frank Winther Rasmussen (Roskilde, Denmark), Peter Kamp Hansen (Lejre, Denmark) and Roland Alexander Pache (Valby, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to xylanase variants, polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; compositions comprising the xylanase variants and methods of using the variants."

The...