US Patent Issued to Novozymes on May 26 for "Processes for producing fermentation products" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,699, issued on May 26, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Processes for producing fermentation products" was invented by Randall Scott Deinhammer (Wake Forest, N.C.), Joyce Craig (Pittsboro, N.C.), Suzanne Clark (Youngsville, N.C.), John Matthews (Louisburg, N.C.), Anne Glud Hjulmand (Bagsvaerd, Denmark), Chee-Leong Soong (Raleigh, N.C.) and Zhengfang Kang (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein an alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease, pullulanase and/or glucoamylase are presen...