US Patent Issued to Novozymes on July 21 for "Dnase variants" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,857, issued on July 21, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Dnase variants" was invented by Lars Beier (Soborg, Denmark), Klaus Gori (Dyssegaard, Denmark), Lars Henrik Oestergaard (Charlottelund, Denmark), Lars Giger (Valby, Denmark), Annette Helle Johansen (Bronshoj, Denmark) and Gernot J. Abel (Copenhagen, Denmark).

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