US Patent Issued to Novozymes on Aug. 4 for "Lipase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" (Danish, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,488, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Lipase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" was invented by Padmavathi Balumuri (Bangalore, India), Rakhi Saikia (Bangalore, India), Allan Svendsen (Horsholm, Denmark) and Lone Baunsgaard (Helsingor, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a lipase variant of a parent lipase, which variant has lipase activity, at least 75% but less than 100% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 3 and comprises a substitution at one or more positions corresponding to positions 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 9; 10; 11; 12; 16; 19; 30; 31; 34; 36; 37; 39; ...