US Patent Issued to Novozymes on Oct. 6 for "Alpha-amylase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" (Danish, American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,399, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Alpha-amylase variants and polynucleotides encoding same" was invented by Carsten Andersen (Vaerloese, Denmark), Thomas Agersten Poulsen (Ballerup, Denmark), Dorota Nissen (Vedbaek, Denmark), Marie Thryose Kruse (Vaerloese, Denmark), Sarah Schultheis Elliott (Raleigh, N.C.) and Shiro Fukuyama (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to isolated alpha-amylase variants of a parent alpha-amylase, comprising an alteration at one or more positions corresponding to positions 196, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16...