US Patent Issued to Novozymes on June 16 for "Animal feed additives comprising a polypeptide having protease activity and uses thereof" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,209, issued on June 16, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Animal feed additives comprising a polypeptide having protease activity and uses thereof" was invented by Laerke Tvedebrink Haahr (Bagsvaerd, Denmark), Tine Hoff (Holte, Denmark) and Peter Rahbek Oestergaard (Virum, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to animal feed and animal feed additives comprising polypeptides having protease activity, as well as methods of producing proteases, methods of producing animal feed and animal feed additives comprising proteases, and methods of using proteases to improve animal performance and...