Patents by Inventor Hans Wolfgang Höffken
Hans Wolfgang Höffken has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20210115422Abstract: Engineered variant polypeptides having amylase enzyme activity, compositions comprising the enzymes, and methods of making and using the enzymes. The genetically engineered amylase enzymes are useful in many different applications such as laundry detergents, dish washing detergents, and cleaning products for homes, industry, vehicle care, baking, animal feed, pulp and paper processing, starch processing, and ethanol production.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2019Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Asfia Qureshi, Adrienne Huston Davenport, Xuqiu Tan, Oliver Spangenberg, Amanda Rae Logue, Janina Berndt, Tong Li, Stefan Seemayer, Hans Wolfgang Hoeffken, Jingping Zhong
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Publication number: 20190292494Abstract: A composition comprising component (a) at least one phenyl boronic acid and component (b) pentane-1,2-diol and optionally one or more further diols wherein the composition is liquid at 20° C. and 101.3 kPa. Said composition stabilizes serine protease.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2017Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Stefan Jenewein, Max-Philipp Fischer, Hans Wolfgang Hoeffken, Janosch Harald Achenbach, Oliver Spangenberg, Allan Francis Cunningham, Jesper Nielsen
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Patent number: 10316304Abstract: The invention relates to chimeric endonucleases, comprising a endonuclease and a heterologous DNA binding domain comprising one or more Zn2C6 zinc fingers, as well as methods of targeted integration, targeted deletion or targeted mutation of polynucleotides using chimeric endonucleases.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2010Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBHInventors: Andrea Hlubek, Christian Biesgen, Hans Wolfgang Höffken
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Patent number: 9587257Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the enzyme-catalysed hydrolysis of polyacrylic acid esters. According to the method, at least one polyacrylic acid ester is provided and incubated with at least one enzyme selected from enzymes (EC 3.1) acting on ester bindings, until the ester groups contained in the polyacrylic acid ester are partially or fully hydrolytically split, and optionally the modified polymer obtained thereby is isolated. The invention also relates to the enzymes used and mutants thereof, nucleic acids coding for the enzymes, vectors comprising the nucleic acids, micro-organisms comprising the vectors, and the use of the enzymes, the vectors or the micro-organisms for carrying out a method for the enzyme-catalysed hydrolysis of polyacrylic acid esters. The present application also relates to polymer reaction products that can be obtained by the method, and methods for producing esterases.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2016Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Bernhard Hauer, Hans Wolfgang Höffken, Cecilia Kvarnström Branneby, Helmut Schwab, Sabine Feichtenhofer, Marlene Buchebner, Brigitte Pohn
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Patent number: 9480259Abstract: The present invention relates to a pyrazolopyran of the general formula I wherein the variables are defined according to the description, including a tautomer, salt, cleavable prodrug, or mixtures thereof, in particular to said pyrazolopyran for use as a medicament and/or an inhibitor of the enzyme serinehydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT). The invention also relates to a process the preparation of a pyrazolopyran of the formula I, to compositions comprising said compound and processes for the preparation of these compositions. Further it relates to use of the pyrazolopyran of formula I as an herbicide as well as to a method of controlling undesired vegetation.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Matthias Witschel, Frank Stelzer, Johannes Hutzler, Tao Qu, Thomas Mietzner, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Raphael Aponte, Hans Wolfgang Hoeffken, Frederick Calo, Thomas Ehrhardt, Anja Simon, Liliana Parra Rapado
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Publication number: 20160168602Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the enzyme-catalysed hydrolysis of polyacrylic acid esters. According to the method, at least one polyacrylic acid ester is provided and incubated with at least one enzyme selected from enzymes (EC 3.1) acting on ester bindings, until the ester groups contained in the polyacrylic acid ester are partially or fully hydrolytically split, and optionally the modified polymer obtained thereby is isolated. The invention also relates to the enzymes used and mutants thereof, nucleic acids coding for the enzymes, vectors comprising the nucleic acids, micro-organisms comprising the vectors, and the use of the enzymes, the vectors or the micro-organisms for carrying out a method for the enzyme-catalysed hydrolysis of polyacrylic acid esters. The present application also relates to polymer reaction products that can be obtained by the method, and methods for producing esterases.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2016Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Bernhard Hauer, Hans Wolfgang Höffken, Cecilia Kvarnström Branneby, Helmut Schwab, Sabine Feichtenhofer, Marlene Buchebner, Brigitte Pohn
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Patent number: 9173391Abstract: The present invention relates to crystalline complexes of 4-hydroxy benzoic acid and selected pesticides. It also relates to agriculturally useful compositions of the complexes.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2010Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Heidi Emilia Saxell, Rafel Israels, Ansgar Schaefer, Matthias Bratz, Hans Wolfgang Hoeffken, Ingo Brode, Elisa Nauha, Maija Nissinen
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Patent number: 9109200Abstract: The invention relates to the use of an enzyme preparation which catalyzes the degradation of formaldehyde for reducing the formaldehyde content in a formaldehyde-containing formulation. In a preferred embodiment, the enzyme preparation contains a formaldehyde dismutase from a Pseudomonas putida strain. Further, the invention refers to a process for reducing the formaldehyde content in cross-linking agents for textile finishing or in polymer dispersions used, e.g. in construction chemistry. Further the invention relates to the use of an enzyme preparation which catalyzes the degradation of aldehydes for reducing the formaldehyde content in an aldehyde-containing formulation. Furthermore, the invention relates to a novel variant of the formaldehyde dismutase from Pseudomonas putida.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2010Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Andrea Piatesi, Tilo Habicher, Michael Büschel, Li-Wen Wang, Jürgen Reichert, Rainer Packe-Wirth, Kai-Uwe Baldenius, Erich Kromm, Stefan Häfner, Carsten Schwalb, Hans Wolfgang Höffken
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Publication number: 20150126371Abstract: The present invention relates to a pyrazolopyran of the general formula I wherein the variables are defined according to the description, including a tautomer, salt, cleavable prodrug, or mixtures thereof, in particular to said pyrazolopyran for use as a medicament and/or an inhibitor of the enzyme serinehydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT). The invention also relates to a process the preparation of a pyrazolopyran of the formula I, to compositions comprising said compound and processes for the preparation of these compositions. Further it relates to use of the pyrazolopyran of formula I as an herbicide as well as to a method of controlling undesired vegetation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2013Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Matthias Witschel, Frank Stelzer, Johannes Hutzler, Tao Qu, Thomas Mietzner, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Raphael Aponte, Hans Wolfgang Hoeffken, Frederick Calo, Thomas Ehrhardt, Anja Simon, Liliana Parra Rapado
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Publication number: 20150065347Abstract: Co-crystals comprising a) a herbicide compound A, which is 3,6-dichloro-2-methoxybenzoic acid (dicamba), and b) a co-crystal former B, which is selected from the group of aromatic, N-containing heterocycles; and their use in agrochemical compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Tiziana Chiodo, Evgueni Klimov, Ansgar Schaefer, Hans Wolfgang Hoeffken, Rolf Hellman, Andre Kabat, Rafel Israels, Gerhard Schnabel, Matthias Bratz, Christine Kibat, Wolfgang Houy
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Patent number: 8921273Abstract: Substituted pyridazines of the formula I in which the variables are defined according to the description, processes and intermediates for preparing the compounds of the formula I and their N-oxides, their agriculturally suitable salts, compositions comprising them and their use as herbicides, and also methods for controlling unwanted vegetation.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2011Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Dschun Song, Julia Major, Johannes Hutzler, Trevor William Newton, Matthias Witschel, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Tao Qu, Frank Stelzer, Andree Van Der Kloet, Thomas Seitz, Thomas Ehrhardt, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Anna Aleksandra Michrowska-Pianowska, Anja Simon, Ruediger Reingruber, Helmut Kraus, Hans Wolfgang Hoeffken, Thomas Mietzner
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Patent number: 8809535Abstract: Substituted pyridines of the formula I in which the variables are defined according to the description, processes and intermediates for preparing the compounds of the formula I and their N-oxides, their agriculturally suitable salts, compositions comprising them and their use as herbicides, and also methods for controlling unwanted vegetation.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2011Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Matthias Witschel, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Tao Qu, Frank Stelzer, Andree Van Der Kloet, Thomas Seitz, Thomas Ehrhardt, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Anna Aleksandra Michrowska-Pianowska, Anja Simon, Ruediger Reingruber, Helmut Kraus, Dschun Song, Julia Major, Johannes Hutzler, Trevor William Newton, Hans Wolfgang Hoeffken, Thomas Mietzner
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Publication number: 20140100338Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the enzyme-catalysed hydrolysis of polyacrylic acid esters. According to said method, at least one polyacrylic acid ester is provided and incubated with at least one enzyme selected from enzymes (EC 3.1) acting on ester bindings, until the ester groups contained in the polyacrylic acid ester are partially or fully hydrolytically split, and optionally the modified polymer obtained thereby is isolated. The invention also relates to the enzymes used and mutants thereof, nucleic acids coding for the enzymes, vectors comprising the nucleic acids, micro-organisms comprising the vectors, and the use of the enzymes, the vectors or the micro-organisms for carrying out a method for the enzyme-catalysed hydrolysis of polyacrylic acid esters. The present application also relates to polymer reaction products that can be obtained by the method, and methods for producing esterases.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Bernhard Hauer, Hans Wolfgang Höffken, Cecilia Kvarnström Branneby, Helmut Schwab, Sabine Feichtenhofer, Marlene Buchebner, Brigitte Pohn
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Patent number: 8658400Abstract: The present invention relates to novel phenylethanol dehydrogenase mutants, to a method for the manufacture thereof; to coded nucleic acid sequences therefor, to expression cassettes, to vectors and recombinant microorganisms that contain said sequences; to a method for the biocatalytic synthesis of substituted, optically active alcohols and to the use of said mutants; and particularly to a method for manufacturing duloxetine alcohol or duloxetine, comprising a synthesis step catalyzed biocatalytic by said mutants.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2009Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Nina Schneider, Hans Wolfgang Höffken
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Patent number: 8617858Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the enzyme-catalysed hydrolysis of polyacrylic acid esters. According to the method, at least one polyacrylic acid ester is provided and incubated with at least one enzyme selected from enzymes (EC 3.1) acting on ester bindings, until the ester groups contained in the polyacrylic acid ester are partially or fully hydrolytically split, and optionally the modified polymer obtained thereby is isolated. The invention also relates to the enzymes used and mutants thereof, nucleic acids coding for the enzymes, vectors comprising the nucleic acids, micro-organisms comprising the vectors, and the use of the enzymes, the vectors or the micro-organisms for carrying out a method for the enzyme-catalysed hydrolysis of polyacrylic acid esters. The present application also relates to polymer reaction products that can be obtained by the method, and methods for producing esterases.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2009Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Bernhard Hauer, Hans Wolfgang Höffken, Cecilia Kvarnström Branneby, Helmut Schwab, Sabine Feichtenhofer, Marlene Buchebner, Brigitte Pohn
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Patent number: 8575068Abstract: Substituted pyridazines of the formula I in which the variables are defined according to the description, processes and intermediates for preparing the compounds of the formula I and their N oxides, their agriculturally useful salts, compositions comprising them and their use as herbicides, and also a method for controlling unwanted vegetation.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Dschun Song, Julia Major, Johannes Hutzler, Trevor William Newton, Matthias Witschel, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Tao Qu, Frank Stelzer, Andree Van Der Kloet, Thomas Seitz, Thomas Ehrhardt, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Anna Aleksandra Michrowska-Pianowska, Anja Simon, Ruediger Reingruber, Helmut Kraus, Hans Wolfgang Hoeffken, Thomas Mietzner
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Patent number: 8440594Abstract: Substituted pyridines of the formula I in which the variables are defined according to the description, processes and intermediates for preparing the compounds of the formula I and their N-oxides, their agriculturally suitable salts, compositions comprising them and their use as herbicides, and also methods for controlling unwanted vegetation.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Dschun Song, Julia Major, Johannes Hutzler, Trevor William Newton, Matthias Witschel, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Tao Qu, Frank Stelzer, Andree Van Der Kloet, Thomas Seitz, Thomas Ehrhardt, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Anna Aleksandra Michrowska-Pianowska, Anja Simon, Ruediger Reingruber, Helmut Kraus, Hans Wolfgang Hoeffken, Thomas Mietzner
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Publication number: 20130065760Abstract: Substituted pyridines of the formula I in which the variables are defined according to the description, processes and intermediates for preparing the compounds of the formula I and their N-oxides, their agriculturally suitable salts, compositions comprising them and their use as herbicides, and also methods for controlling unwanted vegetation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Dschun Song, Julia Major, Johannes Hutzler, Trevor William Newton, Matthias Witschel, Liliana Parra Rapado, Tao Qu, Frank Stelzer, Andree Van Der Kloet, Thomas Seitz, Thomas Ehrhardt, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Anna Aleksandra Michrowska-Pianowska, Anja Simon, Ruediger Reingruber, Helmut Kraus, Hans Wolfgang Hoeffken, Thomas Mietzner, William Karl Moberg
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Publication number: 20130023415Abstract: Substituted pyridines of the formula (I) in which the variables are defined according to the description, processes and intermediates for preparing the compounds of the formula (I) and their N-oxides, their agriculturally suitable salts, compositions comprising them and their use as herbicides, and also methods for controlling unwanted vegetation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2011Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Matthias Witschel, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Tao Qu, Frank Stelzer, Andree Van Der Kloet, Thomas Seitz, Thomas Ehrhardt, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Anna Aleksandra Michrowska-Pianowska, Anja Simon, Ruediger Reingruber, Helmut Kraus, Dschun Song, Julia Major, Johannes Hutzler, Trevor William Newton, Hans Wolfgang Hoeffken, Thomas Mietzner
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Publication number: 20130012388Abstract: Substituted pyridazines of the formula I in which the variables are defined according to the description, processes and intermediates for preparing the compounds of the formula I and their N oxides, their agriculturally useful salts, compositions comprising them and their use as herbicides, and also a method for controlling unwanted vegetation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2011Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Dschun Song, Julia Major, Johannes Hutzler, Trevor William Newton, Matthias Witschel, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Tao Qu, Frank Stelzer, Andree Van Der Kloet, Thomas Seitz, Thomas Ehrhardt, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Anna Aleksandra Michrowska-Pianowska, Anja Simon, Ruediger Reingruber, Helmut Kraus, Hans Wolfgang Hoeffken, Thomas Mietzner