Patents Assigned to Novozymes, Inc.
  • Polypeptides having xylanase activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 10570384
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventor: Nikolaj Spodsberg
  • Compositions comprising a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a heterocyclic compound and uses thereof
    Patent number: 10570431
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising: a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a heterocyclic compound. The present invention also relates to methods of using the compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Quinlan, Feng Xu, Matthew Sweeney
  • Polypeptides Having Cellulolytic Enhancing Activity And Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20200032231
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains, cellulose binding domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or cellulose binding domains. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains or cellulose binding domains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicants: Novozymes A/S, Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Kirk Schnorr, Tarana Shaghasi
  • Polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and nucleic acids encoding same
    Patent number: 10544195
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimberly Brown, Paul Harris, Elizabeth Zaretsky, Edward Re, Elena Vlasenko, Keith McFarland, Alfredo Lopez de Leon
  • POLYPEPTIDES HAVING CELLULOLYTIC ENHANCING ACTIVITY AND POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING SAME
    Publication number: 20200024587
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains, cellulose binding domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or cellulose binding domains. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains or cellulose binding domains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Lan Tang, Ye Liu, Yu Zhang, Junxin Duan, Tarana Shaghasi
  • Methods and compositions for degrading cellulosic material
    Publication number: 20190360012
    Abstract: The present invention relates to enzyme compositions comprising a polypeptide having cellobiohydrolase II activity, a polypeptide having xylanase activity, and one or more cellulolytic proteins and their use in the degradation or conversion of cellulosic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimberly Brown, Eric Abbate
  • Polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 10457923
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains, cellulose binding domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or cellulose binding domains. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains or cellulose binding domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: Novozymes A/S, Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Kirk Schnorr, Tarana Shaghasi
  • Polypeptides Having Cellulolytic Enhancing Activity And Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20190316106
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity, catalytic domains, cellulose binding domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or cellulose binding domains. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains or cellulose binding domains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicants: Novozymes A/S, Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikolaj Spodsberg, Tarana Shaghasi, Matt Sweeney, Feng Xu, Kirk Schnorr
  • GH61 Polypeptide Variants and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20190316103
    Abstract: The present invention relates to GH61 polypeptide 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicants: NOVOZYMES, INC., Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Janine Lin, Doreen Bohan, Michelle Maranta, Leslie Beresford, Michael Lamsa, Bjarne Gram Hansen, Frank Winther Rasmussen, Matt Sweeney, Douglas J. Boyle III
  • Compositions Comprising A Polypeptide Having Cellulolytic Enhancing Activity And A Liquor And Uses Thereof
    Publication number: 20190300922
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising: a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a liquor. The present invention also relates to methods of using the compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicants: Novozymes, Inc., Novozymes North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Quinlan, Feng Xu, Matt Sweeney, Don Higgins, Hui Xu
  • Methods and compositions for degrading cellulosic material
    Patent number: 10400259
    Abstract: The present invention relates to enzyme compositions comprising a polypeptide having cellobiohydrolase II activity, a polypeptide having xylanase activity, and one or more cellulolytic proteins and their use in the degradation or conversion of cellulosic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimberly Brown, Eric Abbate
  • Protease-deficient mutants of for producing polypeptides
    Patent number: 10400260
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mutants of a parent Trichoderma strain, comprising a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide and one or more (several) genes selected from the group consisting of a first subtilisin-like serine protease gene, a first aspartic protease gene, a trypsin-like serine protease gene, a second subtilisin-like serine protease gene, and a second aspartic protease gene, wherein the one or more (several) genes are modified rendering the mutant strain deficient in the production of one or more (several) enzymes selected from the group consisting of a first subtilisin-like serine protease, a first aspartic protease, a trypsin-like serine protease, a second subtilisin-like serine protease, and a second aspartic protease, respectively, compared to the parent Trichoderma strain when cultivated under identical conditions. The present invention also relates to methods of producing a polypeptide in such mutants and methods for producing such mutants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Suchindra Maiyuran, Abigail Jang, Kimberly Brown, Sandra Merino, Jeffrey Shasky, Eric Abbate
  • Methods For Producing Multiple Recombinant Polypeptides In A Filamentous Fungal Host Cell
    Publication number: 20190249161
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for constructing a filamentous fungal strain for production of multiple recombinant polypeptides having biological activity. The present invention also relates to methods for producing multiple recombinant polypeptides having biological activity in a filamentous fungal strain. The present invention also relates to filamentous fungal strains expressing multiple recombinant polypeptides having biological activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Debbie Yaver, Qiming Jin
  • Polypeptides having beta-xylosidase activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 10364423
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having beta-xylosidase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Ye Liu, Lan Tang, Yu Zhang, Junxin Duan
  • Polypeptides Having Cellobiohydrolase Activity And Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20190218535
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventor: Nikolaj Spodsberg
  • Methods of Degrading or Hydrolyzing a Polysaccharide
    Publication number: 20190218581
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of degrading or hydrolyzing a polysaccharide, preferably cellulose or chitin, comprising contacting said polysaccharide with one or more oxidohydrolytic enzymes, preferably a CBM33 family protein (preferably CBP21) or a GH61 family protein, wherein said degradation or hydrolysis is carried out in the presence of at least one reducing agent and at least one divalent metal ion. A method of producing an organic substance comprising said method is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicants: Novozymes A/S, Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Gustav Vaaje-Kostad, Bjorge Westereng, Vincent G. H. Eijsink, Svein J. Horn, Morten Sorliie, Zarah Forsberg
  • GH61 polypeptide variants and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 10351834
    Abstract: The present invention relates to GH61 polypeptide 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignees: Novozymes, Inc., Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Janine Lin, Doreen Bohan, Michelle Maranta, Leslie Beresford, Michael Lamsa, Bjarne Gram Hansen, Frank Winther Rasmussen, Matt Sweeney, Douglas J. Boyle, III
  • Polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 10336993
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity, catalytic domains, cellulose binding domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or cellulose binding domains. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains or cellulose binding domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignees: Novozymes A/S, Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikolaj Spodsberg, Tarana Shaghasi, Matt Sweeney, Feng Xu, Kirk Schnorr
  • Compositions comprising a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a liquor and uses thereof
    Patent number: 10316343
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising: a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a liquor. The present invention also relates to methods of using the compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignees: Novozymes, Inc., Novozymes North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Quinlan, Feng Xu, Matt Sweeney, Don Higgins, Hui Xu
  • Methods for degrading or converting plant cell wall polysaccharides
    Patent number: 10316344
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for converting plant cell wall polysaccharides into one or more products, comprising: treating the plant cell wall polysaccharides with an effective amount of a spent whole fermentation broth of a recombinant microorganism, wherein the recombinant microorganism expresses one or more heterologous genes encoding enzymes which degrade or convert the plant cell wall polysaccharides into the one or more products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Randy Berka, Joel Cherry