US Patent Issued to Novozymes on Feb. 24 for "Lipase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,736, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Lipase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" was invented by Allan Svendsen (Hoersholm, Denmark), Sune Fang Christensen (Bagsvaerd, Denmark), Lars Lehman Hylling Christensen (Holte, Denmark), Vikram Kjoller Bhatia (Charlottelund, Denmark), Jesper Vind (Vaerloese, Denmark) and Vibeke Skovsgaard Nielsen (Nordhavn, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a variant of a parent lipase, wherein said variant has at least 60% but less than 100% sequence identity with SEQ ID NO: 2; has lipase activity; has substitutions correspon...