US Patent Issued to Novozymes on May 19 for "Subtilase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,812, issued on May 19, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Subtilase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" was invented by Frank Winther Rasmussen (Roskilde, Denmark), Peter Kamp Hansen (Lejre, Denmark) and Lars Lehmann Hylling Christensen (Alleroed, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to novel subtilase variants exhibiting increased stability and preferably on par or improved wash performance. The variants of the invention are suitable for use in e.g. cleaning or detergent compositions, such as laundry detergent compositions and dish wash compositions, including automatic dish w...