ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,692, issued on June 23, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"GH30 in wet milling" was invented by Thomas Patrick Gibbons (Wake Forest, N.C.), Bernardo Vidal (Wake Forest, N.C.), James Lavigne (Wake Forest, N.C.), Michael John Akerman (Wake Forest, N.C.), Xinyu Shen (Wake Forest, N.C.), Yi Cao (Beijing), Wei Li (Beijing), Yu Zhang (Beijing), Soeren Nymand-Grarup (Aabyshoej, Denmark), Madelyn Mallison Shoup (Raleigh, N.C.), Kenneth Jensen (Oelsted, Denmark), Kristian Bertel Romer M. Krogh (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) and Lorena Gonzalez Palmen (Malmo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The instant application provides method...