Patents by Inventor James Lavigne
James Lavigne 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: 20240172844Abstract: The present invention provides among other things a fastening apparatus for interconnecting a strap. The fastening apparatus is comprised of two interlocking members. Each interlocking member includes a first elongated portion, a second elongated portion, and bridge portion disposed between the first elongated portion and second elongated portion. One elongated portion may be longer than the other elongated portion. A ridge may be disposed along one of the elongated portions and a groove may be disposed along the other elongated portion. One or more magnets may be embedded in any of the two elongated portions or bridge portion. The fastening apparatus may be joined together by rotating one interlocking member by 180 degrees relative to the other interlocking member and sliding the two members together. The ridge and groove of one interlocking member slidably engages with the corresponding groove and corresponding ridge of the other interlocking member, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventor: Landon James Lavigne
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Patent number: 11987649Abstract: The present invention provides process for treating crop kernels, comprising the steps of a) soaking kernels in water to produce soaked kernels; b) grinding the soaked kernels; c) treating the soaked kernels in the presence of an effective amount of GH62 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity or a GH43 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity, wherein step c) is performed before, during or after step b).Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2023Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: James Lavigne, Bernardo Vidal, Jr., Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Chee-Leong Soong, Randall Scott Deinhammer, Zhen Long, Yi Cao, Michael John Akerman, Xinyu Shen, Yu Zhang, Brian R. Scott
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Publication number: 20240117331Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having pectinase 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: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Geoffrey Moxley, Mercy Wada, Monica Tassone, Mary Ann Stringer, Hong Zhi Huang, Nikolaj Spodsberg, Tianqi Sun, Sara Maria Landvik, James Lavigne, Cui Liu
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Publication number: 20230304054Abstract: The instant application provides methods to improve the total starch yield and/or gluten yield from corn kernels in a wet milling process, the method comprising admixing corn kernels or a fraction of the corn kernels with an enzyme composition comprising an effective amount of one or more hydrolytic enzymes, wherein at least one of said hydrolytic enzymes is selected from the group consisting of a GH30 polypeptide, a GH5 polypeptide or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Bernardo Vidal, James Lavigne, Michael John Akerman, Xinyu Shen, Yi Cao, Wei Li, Yu Zhang, Soeren Nymand-Grarup, Madelyn Mallison Shoup, Kenneth Jensen, Kristian Bertel Romer M. Krogh, Lorena Gonzalez Palmen
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Patent number: 11746366Abstract: The instant application provides methods to improve the total starch yield and/or gluten yield from corn kernels in a wet milling process, the method comprising admixing corn kernels or a fraction of the corn kernels with an enzyme composition comprising an effective amount of one or more hydrolytic enzymes, wherein at least one of said hydrolytic enzymes is selected from the group consisting of a GH30 polypeptide, a GH5 polypeptide or a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2018Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Bernardo Vidal, James Lavigne, Michael John Akerman, Xinyu Shen, Yi Cao, Wei Li, Yu Zhang, Soeren Nymand-Grarup, Madelyn Mallison Shoup, Kenneth Jensen, Kristian Bertel Romer M. Krogh, Lorena Gonzalez Palmen
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Publication number: 20230235094Abstract: The present invention provides process for treating crop kernels, comprising the steps of a) soaking kernels in water to produce soaked kernels; b) grinding the soaked kernels; c) treating the soaked kernels in the presence of an effective amount of GH62 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity or a GH43 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity, wherein step c) is performed before, during or after step b).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: James Lavigne, Bernardo Vidal, JR., Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Chee-Leong Soong, Randall Scott Deinhammer, Zhen Long, Yi Cao, Michael John Akerman, Xinyu Shen, Yu Zhang, Brian R. Scott
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Publication number: 20230183385Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for separating wheat flour into two or more fractions including a gluten fraction and a starch fraction, comprising the steps of: a) mixing wheat flour and water; b) adding one or more polypeptide (s) having GH8 xylanase activity; c) incubating the mixture for a predefined period of time; d) separating the mixture into two or more fractions including a gluten rich fraction and a starch rich fraction; and e) recovering the two or more fractions including a gluten rich fraction and a starch rich fraction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2018Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: James Lavigne, Gernot Abel, Jesper Salomon, Tucker Shepperd
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Patent number: 11649298Abstract: The present invention provides process for treating crop kernels, comprising the steps of a) soaking kernels in water to produce soaked kernels; b) grinding the soaked kernels; c) treating the soaked kernels in the presence of an effective amount of GH62 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity or a GH43 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity, wherein step c) is performed before, during or after step b).Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Yi Cao, James Lavigne, Bernardo Vidal, Jr., Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Chee-Leong Soong, Brian R. Scott, Randall Scott Deinhammer, Zhen Long, Michael John Akerman, Xinyu Shen, Yu Zhang
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Publication number: 20220279818Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a high protein feed ingredient from a whole stillage byproduct produced in a starch-containing grain dry milling process for producing a fermentation product, as well as enzyme blends used in the processes for partitioning a greater amount of protein from the whole stillage byproduct into the high protein fraction, rather than being retained in the wet cake, to produce a high protein feed ingredient.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Kurt Creamer, Kalpesh Parekh, James Lavigne
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Publication number: 20220002690Abstract: Provided are improved methods for treating wheat flour with lipase. Further provided are methods for separating wheat flour to provide a gluten fraction, a starch fraction and a fibre fraction where the wheat flour is treated with a selected lipase. Polypeptides having lipase activity, nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: James Lavigne, Tucker Shepperd, Angela Shows, Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Wei Peng, Ming Li, Tianqi Sun, Lars Lehmann Hylling Christensen
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Publication number: 20210269833Abstract: The present disclosure relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a triacylglyceride lipase (e.g., a thermostable triacylglyceride lipase) is present and/or added during liquefaction, pre-saccharification, saccharification, fermentation, simultaneous saccharification and fermentation, or any combination thereof, to increase enzymatically accessible starch, for example by reducing starch retrogradation, and/or increase fermentation product yield, such as ethanol yield. The disclosure also relates to the use of a triacylglyceride lipase in processes of the disclosure, for example, to increase enzymatically accessible starch and/or fermentation product yield, such as ethanol yield.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Angela Shows, Alan Jay House, Guillermo Coward Kelly, James LaVigne
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Publication number: 20210017297Abstract: The present invention provides process for treating crop kernels, comprising the steps of a) soaking kernels in water to produce soaked kernels; b) grinding the soaked kernels; c) treating the soaked kernels in the presence of an effective amount of GH62 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity or a GH43 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity, wherein step c) is performed before, during or after step b).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Yi Cao, James Lavigne, Bernardo Vidal, Jr., Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Chee-Leong Soong, Brian R. Scott, Randall Scott Deinhammer, Zhen Long, Michael John Akerman, Xinyu Shen, Yu Zhang
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Patent number: 10836837Abstract: A process for treating crop kernels is comprised of the steps of a) soaking kernels in water to produce soaked kernels; b) grinding the soaked kernels; c) treating the soaked kernels in the presence of an effective amount of GH62 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity or a GH43 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity, wherein step c) is performed before, during or after step b).Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2016Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Yi Cao, James Lavigne, Bernardo Vidal, Jr., Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Chee-Leong Soong, Brian R. Scott, Randall Scott Deinhammer, Zhen Long, Michael John Akerman, Xinyu Shen, Yu Zhang
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Patent number: 10838106Abstract: Known georeferencing techniques require input in the form of manually-chosen anchor points or dense surveyed data. The present invention is an improved method and system for georeferencing underground geometric data. The method comprises (a) visiting at least two control points; (b) obtaining information about each of the at least two control points using scanning means; (c) recording the information about the at least two control points into a computer processor; and (d) performing a best-fit transformation to the recorded information. Preferably, the scanning means comprises laser scanners and at least two radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags. However, other technologies, such as retro-reflective LIDAR targets, Wi-Fi access points or bar codes and a bar code reader may also be used. In addition, sonar, radar, flash LIDAR, MEMS LIDAR, or any other similar technology could be used.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Peck Tech Consulting Ltd.Inventors: Sandy Wayne Pyke, Joshua Alexander Marshall, Nicholas James Lavigne, Unal Artan
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Publication number: 20200140909Abstract: The instant application provides methods to improve the total starch yield and/or gluten yield from corn kernels in a wet milling process, the method comprising admixing corn kernels or a fraction of the corn kernels with an enzyme composition comprising an effective amount of one or more hydrolytic enzymes, wherein at least one of said hydrolytic enzymes is selected from the group consisting of a GH30 polypeptide, a GH5 polypeptide or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2018Publication date: May 7, 2020Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Bernardo Vidal, James Lavigne, Michael John Ackerman, Xinyu Shen, Yi Cao, Wei Li, Yu Zhang, Soeren Nymand-Grarup, Madelyn Mallison Shoup, Kenneth Jensen, Kristian Bertel Romer M. Krogh, Lorena Gonzalez Palmen
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Patent number: 10385326Abstract: The present invention relates to GH Family 11 xylanase 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: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: James Lavigne, Brian R. Scott, Daniel Sebastian Kolczynski
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Patent number: 10370682Abstract: The present invention relates to xylanase variants, comprising an alteration at least at one position corresponding to position 87 of the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 3, wherein the variant has xylanase activity and has increased xylanase inhibitor tolerance compared to the xylanase of SEQ ID NO: 3; and i) wherein the variant has at least 75%, at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, or at least 99%, but less than 100% sequence identity to the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 3; or ii) wherein the number of alterations is 1-20, e.g., 1-10 such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 alterations. 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: GrantFiled: June 25, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Brian R. Scott, Mark David Wogulis, Sven Pedersen, James Lavigne
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Patent number: 10364422Abstract: Provided are modified cellulase enzymes exhibiting increase cellulose-hydrolyzing activity in the presence of lignin and/or reduced binding to lignin comprising modified linker peptides comprising one or more amino acid substitutions, insertions, or deletions that result in (a) a decrease in the calculated isoelectric point of the linker peptide and/or (b) an increase in the ratio of threonine:serine in the linker peptide relative to a parental linker peptide from which said modified linker peptide is derived. Also provided are genetic constructs comprising nucleic acid sequences encoding for modified cellulase enzymes, methods for the production of the modified cellulase enzymes from host strains and a process for hydrolysing cellulose with the modified cellulases in the presence of lignin.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: IOGEN ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Brian R. Scott, Patrick St-Pierre, James Lavigne, Nabil Masri, Theresa C. White, John J. Tomashek
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Publication number: 20190002592Abstract: A process for treating crop kernels is comprised of the steps of a) soaking kernels in water to produce soaked kernels; b) grinding the soaked kernels; c) treating the soaked kernels in the presence of an effective amount of GH62 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity or a GH43 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity, wherein step c) is performed before, during or after step b).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2016Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Yi Cao, James Lavigne, Bernardo Vidal, Jr., Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Chee-Leong Soong, Brian R. Scott, Randall Scott Deinhammer, Zhen Long, Michael John Akerman, Xinyu Shen, Yu Zhang
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Publication number: 20180081079Abstract: Known georeferencing techniques require input in the form of manually-chosen anchor points or dense surveyed data. The present invention is an improved method and system for georeferencing underground geometric data. The method comprises (a) visiting at least two control points; (b) obtaining information about each of the at least two control points using scanning means; (c) recording the information about the at least two control points into a computer processor; and (d) performing a best-fit transformation to the recorded information. Preferably, the scanning means comprises laser scanners and at least two radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags. However, other technologies, such as retro-reflective LIDAR targets, Wi-Fi access points or bar codes and a bar code reader may also be used. In addition, sonar, radar, flash LIDAR, MEMS LIDAR, or any other similar technology could be used.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Sandy Wayne PYKE, Joshua Alexander MARSHALL, Nicholas James LAVIGNE, Unal ARTAN