Patents by Inventor Long Liu

Long Liu 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).

  • Patent number: 10669532
    Abstract: The invention relates to a recombinant strain of Bacillus subtilis, wherein pyruvate carboxylase BalpycA, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate ferredoxin dehydrogenase gor, isocitrate NAD+ dehydrogenase icd, malate quinone dehydrogenase mqo, pyruvate ferredoxin oxidoreductase porAB and nitrogenase ferritin cyh are integrated and expressed in the recombinant strain. The invention also discloses use of the recombinant strain in fermentation production of acetylglucosamine. The recombinant Bacillus subtilis of the invention eliminates the central carbon metabolism overflow of the Bacillus subtilis and balances the intracellular reducing force, and the fermentation yield of acetylglucosamine is greatly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Long Liu, Yang Gu, Jieying Deng, Jian Chen, Guocheng Du, Jianghua Li
  • Patent number: 10669550
    Abstract: The invention discloses a promoter which can be induced to express in acidic conditions, and relates to the field of bioengineering technology. The promoters of the invention are separated from A. niger and can actuate and/or regulate the expression of the effectively connected nucleic acids in A. niger. In the invention the expression of the promoters is studied in A. niger, and it is indicated that some promoters show weak expression, and some show strong activity. The invention provides an effective method and new thought for organic acids production by fungi or other products produced by fermentation under acidic conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Long Liu, Jian Chen, Guocheng Du, Xian Yin, Jianghua Li
  • Publication number: 20200140894
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses recombinant Bacillus subtilis for synthesizing e lacto-N-neotetraose yield. The recombinant Bacillus subtilis is obtained by integrating two ?-1,4-galactotransferase genes on a genome of a host bacterium Bacillus subtilis 168?amyE:P43-lacY, P43-lgtB, PxylA-comK and exogenously expressing a ?-1,3-N-glucosaminotransferase gene. Compared with a strain before transformation, the recombinant Bacillus subtilis of the disclosure improves the yield of the synthesized lacto-N-neotetraose from 720 mg/L to 1300 mg/L, laying a foundation for further metabolic engineering transformation of Bacillus subtilis for producing the lacto-N-neotetraose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Long LIU, Jian CHEN, Miao WANG, Guocheng DU, Xiaomin DONG, Xueqin LV, Jianghua LI
  • Publication number: 20200140895
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses recombinant Bacillus subtilis for synthesizing guanosine diphosphate fucose and a construction method and application thereof. The recombinant Bacillus subtilis is obtained by intensively expressing guanylate kinase and nucleotide diphosphokinase genes and expressing exogenous fucokinase and phosphate guanylyltransferase genes in a genome of Bacillus subtilis 168. According to the disclosure, a bacterial strain for synthesizing the guanosine diphosphate fucose is obtained by reconstructing the Bacillus subtilis 168, with a volume of intracellular accumulation up to 196.15 g/L. According to the disclosure, by intensively expressing the guanylate kinase and nucleotide diphosphokinase genes, and enhancing the supply of intracellular GDP-L-fucose composition cofactors, the synthesis of the guanosine diphosphate fucose is promoted. The construction method for the recombinant Bacillus subtilis of the disclosure is simple and convenient to use, thus having good application prospects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Long LIU, Jian CHEN, Guocheng DU, Jieying DENG, Chunmei CHEN, Xueqin LV, Jianghua LI
  • Patent number: 10643923
    Abstract: A case and an electronic device having the case are provided according to the present application. A fan is arranged on a case wall of the case, an air inlet and an air outlet in communication with the air inlet are arranged in the case wall. The fan is arranged inside the case and is located between the air inlet and the air outlet. Each of the fan is mounted in a bottom-to-top manner with its air inlet facing downwards and its air outlet facing upwards. The air inlet is located at a lower end of the case, the air outlet is located at an upper end of the case, and an air duct from bottom to top is formed by the air inlet, the fan and the air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SUNGROW POWER SUPPLY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qu'e Cai, Yonghong Li, Puyun Dong, Jianhua Mao, Long Liu
  • Patent number: 10633658
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for producing N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) by co-utilizing glucose and xylose based on CRISPRi, and belongs to the field of genetic engineering. According to the method, Bacillus subtilis BSGNY-Pveg-glmS-P43-GNA1 is used as an original strain, dCas9 induced by xylose and three sgRNA expression fragments targeting to genes zwf, pfkA and glmM respectively are integrated on the genome, and the strain is fermented in a shake flask, so that the titer of GlcNAc reaches 20.5 g/L, the yield of GlcNAc is 0.612 g/g glucose, at the same time, the efficient co-utilizing of glucose and xylose by the recombinant B.s subtilis is achieved, and the foundation for further metabolic engineering transformation of the B. subtilis to produce GlcNAc and industrialization thereof is laid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Long Liu, Jian Chen, Guocheng Du, Jianghua Li, Yaokang Wu, Taichi Chen
  • Patent number: 10618940
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for increasing citrate production from genome reconstructed Aspergillus niger. The method is to insert a gene of low affinity glucose transporter, LGT1, to genome of A. niger. The expression level of LGT1 is under control of promoter Pgas. The genome reconstructed A. niger is tolerant to higher fermentation temperature and lower pH than that of the parental strain. Moreover, the production, yield and purity of product from reconstructed A. niger are higher than that of parental strain, and the fermentation time is shorter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Jiangnan University
    Inventors: Long Liu, Jian Chen, Guocheng Du, Jianghua Li, Xian Yin, Zhijie Hu, Jianwei Jiang, Fuxin Sun, Sai Jin, Cheng Zhang, Xiaodong Jiang
  • Patent number: 10612007
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for improving citric acid production by Aspergillus niger fermentation, which integrates Aspergillus niger GABA pathway succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase SSD gene into Aspergillus niger genome to obtain recombinant Aspergillus niger strain, and uses recombinant black The Aspergillus strain ferments to produce citric acid; the expression of the succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase SSD gene is regulated by the Pgas promoter. The method of the invention realizes the expression of succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase SSD in Aspergillus niger to enhance the GABA pathway so as to strengthen the TCA cycle and promote the synthesis of citric acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Long Liu, Jian Chen, Guocheng Du, Jianghua Li, Xian Yin, Zhijie Hu, Jianwei Jiang, Fuxin Sun, Sai Jin, Cheng Zhang, Xiaodong Jiang
  • Publication number: 20200071778
    Abstract: The invention provides a recombinant bacillus subtilis, construction method and use thereof, wherein the cell's own FMMs are used as a space scaffold, and a multi-enzyme complex is constructed from specific marker proteins FloA and FloT, such that an artificial substrate channel is formed, and the cell metabolic burden is effectively reduced. The recombinant Bacillus subtilis of the invention can efficiently synthesize GlcNAc without affecting cell life activity, and can also limit the toxic intermediate metabolite GlcN-6-P near the plasma membrane to reduce or eliminate its inhibition on cell activity. In the process of shaking flask fermentation using complex medium, the yield of acetyl glucosamine of the control strain BSG-C was only 0.45 g.L?1, while that of BSG-AT, BSG-ATP, BSG-ATPB increased to 5.29 g.L?1, 6.22 g.L?1 and 8.48 g.L?1 respectively. The construction method of recombinant Bacillus subtilis is simple, easy to use and has a good application prospect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Long LIU, Xueqin LV, Guocheng DU, Jianghua LI, Jian CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200032237
    Abstract: The invention relates to a recombinant strain of Bacillus subtilis, wherein pyruvate carboxylase BalpycA, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate ferredoxin dehydrogenase gor, isocitrate NAD+ dehydrogenase icd, malate quinone dehydrogenase mqo, pyruvate ferredoxin oxidoreductase porAB and nitrogenase ferritin cyh are integrated and expressed in the recombinant strain. The invention also discloses use of the recombinant strain in fermentation production of acetylglucosamine. The recombinant Bacillus subtilis of the invention eliminates the central carbon metabolism overflow of the Bacillus subtilis and balances the intracellular reducing force, and the fermentation yield of acetylglucosamine is greatly improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Long Liu, Yang Gu, Jieying Deng, Jian Chen, Guocheng Du, Jianghua Li
  • Patent number: 10514807
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a television virtual touch control method and system. The television virtual touch control method is used in a television having a depth camera and includes the following steps: acquiring a human body image having depth information by the depth camera in real time; presetting an area excluding a hand area in a human body area as a reference area; extracting the depth information of the reference area and the hand area from the human body image; defining a virtual touch surface between the depth camera and the reference area at a first predetermined distance D1 from the reference area; and determining whether the hand area touches or penetrates through the virtual touch surface according to the depth information of the hand area, the depth information of the reference area and the first predetermined distance D1. The present invention has the beneficial effects of improving touch sensitivity and enhancing user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen Orbbec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenzhong Xiao, Honghuai Xu, Long Liu, Yuanhao Huang
  • Publication number: 20190386956
    Abstract: A port listening request dynamically generated by an application process hosted in a container can be identified. Whether the application process hosted in the container is trusted can be determined. Responsive to determining that the application process hosted in the container is trusted, a first port to be used as an external port for the application process can be dynamically selected, and a port assignment can be communicated to a container engine, the port assignment indicating the first port is assigned to the application process. The first port can be mapped to a second port assigned as an internal port for the application process. The first port can be opened for the application process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Ling Lan, Hongxia Li, Hai Long Liu, Xin Peng Liu
  • Patent number: 10509588
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for controlling memory frequency. One method comprises a first memory client generating a compressed data buffer and compression statistics related to the compressed data buffer. The compressed data buffer and the compression statistics are stored in a memory device. Based on the stored compression statistics, a frequency or voltage setting of the memory device is adjusted for enabling a second memory client to read the compressed data buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Serag Gadelrab, Sudeep Ravi Kottilingal, Meghal Varia, Pooja Sinha, Ujwal Patel, Ruo Long Liu, Jeffrey Chu, Sina Gholamian, Hyukjune Chung, David Strasser, Raghavendra Nagaraj, Eric Demers
  • Patent number: 10465198
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for improving the yield of Bacillus subtilis acetylglucosamine, which belongs to the technical field of genetic engineering. In the invention, the recombinant Bacillus subtilis S5 (S5-PxylA-glmS-P43-GNA1) is taken as a starting strain, and the glmS ribozyme is integrated into the mid of rbs and the promoter sequence of the glmM and pfkA gene, respectively. The ribozyme mutant has the advantage of prolonging the stability of the mRNA and integrated into the mid of rbs and the promoter sequence of the pgi gene. The yield of GlcNAc of the recombinant strain reaches 11.79-20.05 g/L. This laid the foundation for the further metabolic engineering of Bacillus subtilis to produce GlcNAc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Long Liu, Jianghua Li, Tengfei Niu, Jian Chen, Guocheng Du
  • Publication number: 20190309281
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for promoting acetylglucosamine synthesis of Bacillus subtilis, which belongs to the field of genetic engineering. The present invention adopts the recombinant Bacillus subtilis BSGNKAP2 as a starting strain, exogenously introducing pyruvate carboxylase BalpycA derived from Bacillus cereus, eliminating the central carbon metabolism overflow of the Bacillus subtilis and avoiding the synthesis of the by-product acetoin; further, five exogenous reducing force metabolic reactions are introduced to replace the reaction of generating NADH in glycolysis pathway and tricarboxylic acid cycle to reconstruct intracellular reducing force metabolism, which specifically comprise glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate ferredoxin dehydrogenase, isocitrate NAD+ dehydrogenase, a malate quinone dehydrogenase, a ketoacid ferredoxin oxidoreductase and a nitrogenase ferritin. In a shake-flask fermentation process using a complex medium, acetylglucosamine yield of the recombinant strain BSGNKAP8 is 24.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Long LIU, Yang GU, Jieying DENG, Jian CHEN, Guocheng DU, Jianghua LI
  • Publication number: 20190218548
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for producing N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) by co-utilizing glucose and xylose based on CRISPRi, and belongs to the field of genetic engineering. According to the method, Bacillus subtilis BSGNY-Pveg-glmS-P43-GNA1 is used as an original strain, dCas9 induced by xylose and three sgRNA expression fragments targeting to genes zwf, pfkA and glmM respectively are integrated on the genome, and the strain is fermented in a shake flask, so that the titer of GlcNAc reaches 20.5 g/L, the yield of GlcNAc is 0.612 g/g glucose, at the same time, the efficient co-utilizing of glucose and xylose by the recombinant B.s subtilis is achieved, and the foundation for further metabolic engineering transformation of the B. Subtilis to produce GlcNAc and industrialization thereof is laid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Long LIU, Jian CHEN, Guocheng DU, Jianghua LI, Yaokang WU, Taichi CHEN
  • Publication number: 20190199687
    Abstract: A port listening request dynamically generated by an application process hosted in a container can be identified. Whether the application process hosted in the container is trusted can be determined. Responsive to determining that the application process hosted in the container is trusted, a first port to be used as an external port for the application process can be dynamically selected, and a port assignment can be communicated to a container engine, the port assignment indicating the first port is assigned to the application process. The first port can be mapped to a second port assigned as an internal port for the application process. The first port can be opened for the application process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Ling Lan, Hongxia Li, Hai Long Liu, Xin Peng Liu
  • Publication number: 20190144875
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for improving the yield of Bacillus subtilis acetylglucosamine, which belongs to the technical field of genetic engineering. In the invention, the recombinant Bacillus subtilis S5 (S5-PxylA-glmS-P43-GNA1) is taken as a starting strain, and the glmS ribozyme is integrated into the mid of rbs and the promoter sequence of the glmM and pfkA gene, respectively. The ribozyme mutant has the advantage of prolonging the stability of the mRNA and integrated into the mid of rbs and the promoter sequence of the pgi gene. The yield of GlcNAc of the recombinant strain reaches 11.79-20.05 g/L. This laid the foundation for the further metabolic engineering of Bacillus subtilis to produce GlcNAc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Long LIU, Jianghua LI, Tengfei NIU, Jian CHEN, Guocheng DU
  • Publication number: 20190144877
    Abstract: The invention discloses a promoter which can be induced to express in acidic conditions, and relates to the field of bioengineering technology. The promoters of the invention are separated from A. niger and can actuate and/or regulate the expression of the effectively connected nucleic acids in A. niger. In the invention the expression of the promoters is studied in A. niger, and it is indicated that some promoters show weak expression, and some show strong activity. The invention provides an effective method and new thought for organic acids production by fungi or other products produced by fermentation under acidic conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Long Liu, Jian Chen, Guocheng Du, Xian Yin, Jianghua Li
  • Patent number: 10221423
    Abstract: The invention discloses a promoter which can be induced to express in acidic conditions, and relates to the field of bioengineering technology. The promoters of the invention are separated from A. niger and can actuate and/or regulate the expression of the effectively connected nucleic acids in A. niger. In the invention the expression of the promoters is studied in A. niger, and it is indicated that some promoters show weak expression, and some show strong activity. The invention provides an effective method and new thought for organic acids production by fungi or other products produced by fermentation under acidic conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Jiangnan University
    Inventors: Long Liu, Jian Chen, Guocheng Du, Xian Yin, Jianghua Li