US Patent Issued to Novozymes on Sept. 29 for "Polypeptide variants" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. RE51,046, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Polypeptide variants" was invented by Lars Beier (Soborg, Denmark), Lars Henrik Oestergaard (Charlottelund, Denmark), Annette Helle Johansen (Bronshoj, Denmark), Klaus Gori (Dyssegaard, Denmark), Thomas Holberg Blicher (Dyssegaard, Denmark), Gernot Abel (Copenhagen, Denmark), Steen Krogsgaard (Herlev, Denmark), Jens E. Nielsen (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) and Lars Giger (Valby, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to polypeptide variants and methods for obtaining variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding...