US Patent Issued to Novozymes on May 26 for "Alpha-amylase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" (Indian, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,636, issued on May 26, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Alpha-amylase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" was invented by Carsten Andersen (Bagsvaerd, Denmark), Vivek Srivastava (Bagsvaerd, Denmark), Padmavathi Balumuri (Chennai, India), Partha Pratim Chakrabarti (Bangalore, India) and Sohel Dalal (Ahmedabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to alpha-amylase 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 variants."

The patent was...