ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,493, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Glucoamylase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" was invented by Yuma Kurakata (Chiba, Japan) and Aki Tomiki-Hashizume (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to glucoamylase variants having improved thermostability and compositions comprising such variants. The present invention further relates to polynucleotides encoding such variants, vectors and host cells comprising genes encoding such variants, which may also enable the production of such variants. The present invention also relates to methods of liquefying star...