Enzyme Component Of Specific Activity Or Source (e.g., Lipase, Of Bacterial Origin, Etc.) Patents (Class 510/305)
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Publication number: 20010034314Abstract: There is provided a method of delivering a benefit agent to a selected area of a fabric for exerting a predetermined activity, wherein the area is pre-treated with a multi-specific binding molecule which has a high binding affinity to said area through one specificity and is capable of binding to said benefit agent through another specificity, followed by contacting said pre-treated area with said benefit agent, to enhance said pre-determined activity to said area. Preferably, the binding molecule is an antibody or fragment thereof, or a fusion protein comprising a cellulose binding domain and a domain having a high binding affinity to another ligand which is directed to said benefit agent. The method is useful for stain removal, perfume delivery, and treating collars and cuffs for wear.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2000Publication date: October 25, 2001Inventors: Sandra Hemmington, Steven Howell, Julie Little, Cornelis Paul Van Der Logt, Neil James Parry, Richard George Smith
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Publication number: 20010031490Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of designing laccase mutants with increased oxidation potential and/or changed pH optimum and/or altered mediator pathway and/or altered O2/OH-pathway, which method is based on the hitherto unknown three-dimensional structure of laccases.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2000Publication date: October 18, 2001Inventors: Allan Svendsen, Feng Xu
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Publication number: 20010025018Abstract: A method for antimicrobial treatment of microorganisms and/or viruses which involves treating the microorganisms and/or viruses with an effective amount of a fungal laccase and one or more enhancers in the presence of oxygen, the enhancers having the formula: 1Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2000Publication date: September 27, 2001Inventors: Charlotte Johansen, Anders Hjelholt Pedersen, Claus Crone Fuglsang
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Patent number: 6277806Abstract: There is provided a bleaching enzyme capable of generating a bleaching chemical and having a high binding affinity for non-colored compounds present in stains on fabrics, said non-colored compounds having a molecular weight of at least 100, preferably of at least 1,000 and more preferably of at least 5,000. Furthermore, there is provided an enzymatic bleaching composition comprising said bleaching enzyme and a surfactant and a process for bleaching stains present of fabrics.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1999Date of Patent: August 21, 2001Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Mark John Berry, Daniel Convents, Paul James Davis, Michael John Gidley, Cornelis Paul Van Der Logt
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Publication number: 20010007852Abstract: There is provided an enzymatic bleaching detergent composition comprising a bleaching enzyme capable of generating a bleaching chemical and having a high binding affinity for stains present on fabrics, said enzyme comprising an enzyme part capable of generating a bleaching chemical which is coupled to a reagent having a high binding affinity for stains present on fabrics, characterised in that the pI of the reagent having the high binding affinity has a pI which is lower than the pH of an aqueous wash solution comprising 1 g/l of the composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2000Publication date: July 12, 2001Inventors: Willem Antheunisse, Cornelis Paul Van Der Logt, Neil James Parry, Ton Swarthoff
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Patent number: 6251845Abstract: The present invention relates to detergent compositions, including laundry, fabric care, dishwashing, and hard surface cleaner compositions, comprising an oxygenase directed to body soils, which provide effective and efficient cleaning of everyday body stains and/or soils and provide sanitisation of the treated surfaces. Furthermore, the detergent compositions of the present invention provide substantive fabric realistic items cleaning and whitening performance when formulated as a laundry detergent composition.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2000Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ivan Maurice Alfons Jan Herbots, Alfred Busch
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Patent number: 6242245Abstract: A multicomponent system for modifying, degrading or bleaching lignin and lignin-containing materials or similar substances, includes an oxidoreductase and an oxidant suitable for the oxidoreductase and a mediator and at least one enzymatically active additive. The mediator does not inactivate the oxidoreductase and the enzymatically active additive, and the enzymatically active additive is selected from the group consisting of the hydrolases of the enzyme class 3.2.1.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1998Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: Consortium für elektrochemische Industrie GmbHInventors: Manfred Amann, Michael Wohlschlager, Johannes Freudenreich, Jürgen Stohrer, Elke Fritz-Langhals
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Patent number: 6235697Abstract: A laundry detergent composition is provided for enhanced whitening and stain removal of washed laundry comprising: a) from about 1% to about 50%, by weight, of a surfactant or surfactant mixture selected from the group consisting of anionic and nonionic surfactants; b) a protease enzyme in an amount sufficient to provide from at least about 0.030 to about 3.0 Kilo Novo Protease Units (KNPU) of activity of protease enzyme per gram of detergent composition; c) a cellulase enzyme of the endoglucanase type in an amount sufficient to provide from about 0.5 to about 100 CMC units per gram of detergent composition; and d) from about 0.5% to about 10% by weight, of an acrylic acid-based polymer and copolymer.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2000Date of Patent: May 22, 2001Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Co.Inventors: Joseph Robert Knorr, Barbara Hepler, Mary Holmgren
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Patent number: 6218350Abstract: There is provided a bleaching enzyme capable of generating a bleaching chemical and having a high binding affinity for stains present on fabrics. Furthermore, there is provided an enzymatic bleaching composition comprising the bleaching enzyme and a surfactant and a process for bleaching stains present of fabrics.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 1998Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Stewart Beggs, Mark John Berry, Paul James Davis, Leon Gerardus J. Frenken, Cornelis Theodorus Verrips
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Patent number: 6218164Abstract: The present invention provides thermophilic alkaliphilic bacteria designated Thermopallium natronophilum and thermophilic alkaliphilic polypeptides obtainable therefrom. It also provides compositions, particularly detergent compositions comprising the polypeptides.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1998Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: Genencor International, Inc.Inventors: Brian E. Jones, Margareta A. Herweijer, Michael J. Danson, David W. Hough, Carl R. Thompson
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Patent number: 6197740Abstract: The present invention provides a detergent composition which is excellent in enzyme stability and exhibits excellent detergency particularly to protein-related dirt of socks and other items even under laundering conditions at a lower temperature. That is, the present invention provides a detergent composition comprising specific proportions of (a) an anionic surfactant, (b) a chlorine scavenger, (c) a protease whose &agr;-keratin-hydrolyzing activity at 10° C. is not less than 0.09×10−3 &mgr;g/mPU·min and (d) a protease whose &agr;-keratin-hydrolyzing activity at 10° C. is less than 0.09×10−3 &mgr;g/mPU·min.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2000Date of Patent: March 6, 2001Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Shitsuw Shikata, Masafumi Nomura, Toshihiro Oki, Hitoshi Tanimoto, Tsutomu Tokumoto, Nobuyuki Ogura
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Patent number: 6187055Abstract: A detergent composition containing surfactant, builder component, oxygen-based bleaching agent, bleach activator, and enzyme, wherein the builder component is an oxidatively modified oligosaccharide which contains a —COOH group instead of a —CH(OH)—CHO group at its originally reducing end group and which has an average degree of oligomerization of from 2 to 20.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1998Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf AktienInventors: Beatrix Kottwitz, Joerg Poethkow, Horst Upadek
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Patent number: 6187740Abstract: Granular detergent compositions contain a bleach and a cellulase enzyme derived from Trichodenna SPP. The compositions are especially useful in a fabric laundering process where bleaching activity is desired.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2000Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol, Christiaan Arthur Jacques Kamiel Thoen
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Patent number: 6180585Abstract: Described is An aqueous disinfectant and hard surface cleaning composition comprising: an effective disinfecting amount of a quaternary ammonium compound; an effective amount of a spore forming microbial composition; and an effective water dispersing amount of a surfactant. The composition is used to clean a hard surface containing a diverse microbial flora. The composition cleans and disinfects by killing off undesirable microorganisms which may be causing offensive odors and leaves behind Bacillus spores which will then germinate and degrade any remaining ongoing residues without creating offensive odors.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 1999Date of Patent: January 30, 2001Assignee: Spartan Chemical Company, Inc.Inventors: William John Schalitz, Jason J. Welch, Ronald Thomas Cook
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Patent number: 6169065Abstract: There is provided a process for enhancing the activity of an oxidoreductase, comprising adding to the enzyme, as an enhancer for the activity of said enzyme, a compound having the formula: wherein X represents (—O—) or (—S—) and R1, R2 and R3 may each independently represent hydrogen, hydroxy, halogen, nitroso, formyl, carboxyl, and esters and salts thereof, carbamoyl, sulfo, and esters and salts hereof, sulfamoyl, nitro, amino, phenyl, C1-C20 alkyl, C1-C8 alkoxy, carbonyl-C1-C6-alkoxy, aryl-C1-C6-alkyl, whereby: the carbamoyl, sulfamoyl and amino groups may be unsubstituted or substituted once or twice with hydroxy, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, in which C1-C6-group may be saturated or unsaturated, branched or unbranched and may be substituted once or twice with halogen, nitroso, hydroxy, formyl, carboxy, and esters and salts thereof, carbamoyl, sulfo, and esters and salts hereof, sulfamoyl; and the phenyl group may be substituted with once or twice with halogen, nitrType: GrantFiled: August 27, 1998Date of Patent: January 2, 2001Assignee: Lever Brothers Company division of Conopco CompanyInventors: Willem Antheunisse, Ronald Hage, Jiri Hora, Ton Swarthoff, Robin Stefan Twisker
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Patent number: 6165965Abstract: Described is An aqueous disinfectant and hard surface cleaning composition comprising:an effective disinfecting amount of a quaternary ammonium compound;an effective amount of a spore forming microbial composition; andan effective water dispersing amount of a surfactant.The composition is used to clean a hard surface containing a diverse microbial flora. The composition cleans and disinfects by killing off undesirable microorganisms which may be causing offensive odors and leaves behind Bacillus spores which will then germinate and degrade any remaining ongoing residues without creating offensive odors.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1999Date of Patent: December 26, 2000Assignee: Spartan Chemical Company, Inc.Inventors: William John Schalitz, Jason J. Welch, Ronald Thomas Cook
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Patent number: 6147045Abstract: The present invention relates to detergent compositions comprising an oxidative stability-enhanced amylase and a surfactant system wherein the anionic to nonionic surfactants ratio is from 1:1 to 5:1, preferably from 1:1 to 3:1. Such compositions provide improved cleaning and stain removal performance.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1998Date of Patent: November 14, 2000Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Co.Inventor: Dimitris Lappas
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Patent number: 6139587Abstract: A method for laundering non-structured garments which are unsuitable for water washing and which are to be cleaned without wrinkling, shrinkage or color damage.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2000Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Harikrishnan Achuthan Nair, Melissa LeAnn Campbell
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Patent number: 6140292Abstract: Detergent compositions and fabric laundering and treating methods utilize certain polyamide-polyamines as fabric treatment agents that can impart fabric appearance benefits to fabric laundered or treated in washing or soaking solutions which contain such agents. Such polyamide-polyamine fabric treatment agents include adipic acid-diethylenetriamine-epichlorohydrin adducts.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1999Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Sherri Lynn Randall, Rajan Keshav Panandiker
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Patent number: 6140293Abstract: The present invention relates to detergent compositions comprising an oxidative stability-enhanced amylase and a protease at a level from 0.0001% to 0.5%, preferably from 0.001% to 0.2%, more preferably from 0.005% to 0.1% pure protease enzyme by weight of total composition. Such compositions provide improved cleaning and stains removal performances.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1998Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Dimitris Lappas
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Patent number: 6121226Abstract: Cotton soil release polymers comprising water soluble and/or dispersible, modified polyamines having functionalized backbone moieties and improved stability toward bleach. Also, laundry detergent compositions comprising these cotton soil release polymers having enhanced hydrophilic soil removal benefits in combination with a protease enzyme system are provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1999Date of Patent: September 19, 2000Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Eugene Paul Gosselink, Kenneth Nathan Price, Chanchal Kumar Ghosh
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Patent number: 6107264Abstract: There is provided an enzymatic bleach composition comprising one or more surfactants and an enzyme of extracellular origin, capable of oxidizing substrates by the build-in of one or more oxygen atoms into the substrate using molecular oxygen, in particular a dioxygenase from extracellular origin, and a process for bleaching stains present on fabrics comprising treating the stained fabrics with said composition.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1997Date of Patent: August 22, 2000Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Marcel van der Helm, Monique van der Heiden, Dirk Herman Hondmann, Annelies Smits, Ton Swarthoff, Cornelis Theodorus Verrips
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Patent number: 6096098Abstract: The present invention discloses asymmetrical bleach activators for use in both solid and liquid additive, bleaching and detergent compositions. The asymmetrical bleach activators display the unique ability to form both hydrophilic and hydrophobic bleaching agents in aqueous liquors such as bleaching solutions. Thus, fabrics, hard surfaces or dishes having hydrophobic stains such as dingy and or hydrophilic stains such as beverages can be effectively cleaned or bleached using the bleach activators of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1999Date of Patent: August 1, 2000Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Gregory Scot Miracle, Robert Richard Dykstra, Kevin Lee Kott, Stefano Scialla
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Patent number: 6093218Abstract: Disclosed are detergent compositions with improved solubility having a bulk density of at least 600 g/l, comprising a branched surfactant and from about 1% to about 3% a particulate acid source which is citric acid and an alkaline source, wherein said acid source and alkaline source are capable of reacting together to produce a gas, and wherein about 80% or more of the acid source has a particle size in the range of from about 150 microns to about 710 microns, with at least 37% by weight of the acid source having a particle size of about 350 microns or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 1999Date of Patent: July 25, 2000Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robin Gibson Hall, Christian Leo Marie Vermote
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Patent number: 6087315Abstract: The present invention relates to protease variants, stabilized towards the inactivation caused by peroxidase systems, in which protease variants a naturally occurring tyrosine residue has been deleted or substituted with a different amino acid residue at one or more positions. The invention also relates to a method of stabilizing a protease towards the inactivation caused by peroxidase systems, and detergent compositions comprising a protease variant of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1997Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/SInventors: Grethe Rasmussen, Egon Nielsen, Torben Halkier
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Patent number: 6077818Abstract: The present invention relates to detergent compositions comprising a cellulase termination composition and cellulase in order to prevent potential tensile strength loss related to the hydrolytic activity of cellulase on cellulose substrates while maintaining the desired benefits from the use of cellulase.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1998Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Andre Cesar Baeck, Alfred Busch, Andre Christian Convents, Olivier Paquatte
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Patent number: 6066611Abstract: The invention herein provides bleaching compositions comprising a protease enzyme which is a carbonyl hydrolase variant having an amino acid sequence not found in nature, which is derived by replacement of a plurality of amino acid residues of a precursor carbonyl hydrolase with different amino acids, wherein said plurality of amino acid residues replaced in the precursor enzyme correspond to position +76 in combination with one or more of the following residues: +99, +101, +103, +104, +107, +123, +27, +105, +109, +126, +128, +135, +156, +166, +195, +197, +204, +206, +210, +216, +217, +218, +222, +260, +265, and/or +274, where the numbered positions corresponds to naturally-occurring subtilisin from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens or to equivalent amino acid residues in other carbonyl hydrolases or subtilisins (such as Bacillus lentus subtilisin) and a bleaching agent.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 1997Date of Patent: May 23, 2000Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Chanchal Kumar Ghosh, Michael Eugene Burns, David Neil DiGiulio, Edward Eugene Getty, Richard Timothy Hartshorn, Alan David Willey, Philip F. Brode, Bobby L. Barnett, Donn N. Rubingh
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Patent number: 6060299Abstract: Novel mannanases may be derived from eg Bacillus subtilis strain 168 or may be encoded by polynucleotide molecules comprising a nucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1. The mannanases are alkaline and are useful e.g. in cleaning compositions, for modifying plant material, and for treatment of cellulosic fibres.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1998Date of Patent: May 9, 2000Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/SInventors: Kotikanyadanam Sreekrishna, Kevin Johnstone, Charles Saunders, Jean-Luc Bettiol
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Patent number: 6059844Abstract: A process is disclosed for bleaching of a substrate which includes adding a molecular oxygen activating system to an aqueous wash liquor and bleaching the substrate with the molecular oxygen activating system in the aqueous wash liquor. Significant substrate cleaning results can be obtained by molecular oxygen obtained from air even in the absence of any usually applied active oxygen ingredients such as perborate or percarbonate.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1998Date of Patent: May 9, 2000Assignee: Lever Brothers CompanyInventor: Jean Hypolites Koek
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Patent number: 6046149Abstract: There is provided a detergent composition containing an amylase enzyme and a builder system comprising an aluminosilicate zeolite, a crystalline layered silicate and most preferably an organic polymeric compound wherein the weight ratio of said crytalline layered silicate to said amylase enzyme (120 KNU/gram activity basis) is from 7:1 to 20:1. In one preferred aspect the detergent composition contains a bleaching system capable of providing delayed release of an organic peroxyacid to a wash solution.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1999Date of Patent: April 4, 2000Assignee: Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Graham Alexander Sorrie, Alison Lesley Main
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Patent number: 6017874Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a liquid detergent composition comprising a surfactant system which is free of linear alkyl benzene sulfonate. The detergent composition comprises a selected quaternary ammonium surfactant, and an anionic surfactant selected from the group consisting of alkyl alkoxy sulfates and alkyl sulfates.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 1998Date of Patent: January 25, 2000Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Dimitris Lappas, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Thomas Wilhelm Horner
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Patent number: 6017866Abstract: The present invention provides mutant lipases which retain lipase activity, but have improved surfactant resistance and are thus highly advantageous for use in detergent compositions. Preferred lipases of this type include modified functional forms of a lipase of Pseudomonas alcaligenes having one or more amino acid substitutions at or near the surface of the lipase which effect interaction of the hydrophobic portions of surfactant molecules with initiation sites on the enzyme for surfactant denaturation.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1996Date of Patent: January 25, 2000Assignee: Genencor International, Inc.Inventors: Wolfgang Aehle, Gijsbert Gerritse, Hermanus B. M. Lenting
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Patent number: 6017871Abstract: The present invention relates to cleaning compositions comprising protease enzyme which is a carbonyl hydrolase variant having an amino acid sequence not found in nature, which is derived by replacement of a plurality of amino acid residues of a precursor carbonyl hydrolase with different amino acids, wherein said plurality of amino acid residues replaced in the precursor enzyme correspond to position +76 in combination with one or more of the following residues: +99, +101, +103, +104, +107, +123, +27, +105, +109, +126, +128, +135, +156, +166, +195, +197, +204, +206, +210, +216, +217, +218, +222, +260, +265, and/or +274, where the numbered positions corresponds to naturally-occurring subtilisin from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens or to equivalent amino acid residues in other carbonyl hydrolases or subtilisins (such as Bacillus lentus subtilisin).Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1997Date of Patent: January 25, 2000Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Andre Baeck, Chanchal Kumar Ghosh, Thomas Paul Graycar, Richard Ray Bott, Lori Jean Wilson, Philip Frederick Brode, Bobby Lee Barnett, Donn Nelton Rubingh
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Patent number: 5994290Abstract: A solid textile detergent formulation, comprising(A) 1-60% by weight of inorganic builders based on crystalline or amorphous aluminosilicates, crystalline or amorphous silicates, carbonates and/or phosphates,(B) 0.1-25% by weight of one or more glycine-N,N'-diacetic acid derivatives I ##STR1## where R is an organic radical and M is hydrogen or a cation, as organic cobuilders,(C) 1-40% by weight of anionic surfactants and(D) 0.5-30% by weight of nonionic surfactants.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1998Date of Patent: November 30, 1999Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Birgit Potthoff-Karl, Beate Ehle, Angelika Funhoff, Dieter Kiessling, Richard Baur, Thomas Greindl
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Patent number: 5972872Abstract: The present invention relates to detergent compositions comprising an enzyme preparation with substantial cellulytic activity, especially endoglucanase activity, at alkaline conditions which is enzyme composition is derived from or producible by a fungus selected from the Basidiomycetous families Coprinaceae and Bolbitiaceae, preferably from the group of strains belonging to the genera Psathyrella, Podaxis, Panaeolus, Coprinus and Bolbitius, more preferably from the group of strains belonging to the species Coprinus micaceus, Coprinus domesticus, Coprinus ephemerus, Coprinus disseminatus, Coprinus radians, Coprinus picaceus, Coprinus frisei, Coprinus subimpatiens, Psathyrella candolleana, Psathyrella prona, Panaeolus semiovatus, Podaxis pistillaris and Bolbitius aleuriatus; and a method for providing a stone-washed look to textiles, especially to cellulosic fabric such as denim, using the mentioned enzyme preparation; and a method for improving the drainage of paper pulp or the de-inking of recycled paper usiType: GrantFiled: June 6, 1997Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/SInventors: Lene Lange, Jack Bech Nielsen, Martin Schulein
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Patent number: 5972040Abstract: A granular detergent composition comprising an alkali metal percarbonate and an amylase enzyme, characterized in that said composition contains an amylase in a weight ratio of percarbonate to amylase of 1:2 to 300:1, preferably 1:2 to 60:1, more preferably 20:1 to 40:1. Both laundry detergent compositions including laundry additives and automatic dishwashing compositions are encompassed by the term "detergent composition" herein. Methods of treatment of specific stains are also encompassed.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1996Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Michael Alan John Moss, Christiaan Arthur Thoen
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Patent number: 5968883Abstract: The present invention relates to novel variants of Coprinus cinereus peroxidase showing excellent hydrogen peroxide stability.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1999Date of Patent: October 19, 1999Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/SInventors: Joel R. Cherry, Allan Svendsen, Ture Damhus, Palle Schneider
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Patent number: 5965510Abstract: This invention relates to activation of enzymes. More specifically, the invention relates to agents capable of enhancing the activity of peroxidases or peroxidase acting compounds. The invention also relates to methods of oxidizing a substrate with a source of hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a peroxidase enzyme or a peroxidase acting compound, and an enhancing agent. More specifically, the invention relates to a method of bleaching of dye in solutions, to a method of inhibiting the transfer of a textile dye from a dyed fabric to another fabric when said fabrics are washed together in a wash liquor, to a method of bleaching of lignin-containing material, in particular bleaching of pulp for paper production, to a method of treatment of waste water from pulp manufacturing, and to a method of enzymatic polymerization and/or modification of lignin or lignin containing material.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1995Date of Patent: October 12, 1999Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/SInventors: Palle Schneider, S.o slashed.ren Ebdrup
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Patent number: 5958739Abstract: Novel .alpha.-amylase enzymes are disclosed in which one or more asparagine residues are substituted with a different amino acid or deleted. The disclosed .alpha.-amylase enzymes show altered or improved low pH starch hydrolysis performance, stability and activity profiles.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1997Date of Patent: September 28, 1999Assignee: Genencor International Inc.Inventors: Colin Mitchinson, Carol Requadt, Traci Ropp, Leif P. Solheim, Christopher Ringer, Anthony Day
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Patent number: 5932532Abstract: Bleaching and cleaning compositions comprising a bleaching compound, one or more bleach activators, and protease enzymes are provided. Thus, laundry detergent compositions which comprise protease, perborate or percarbonate and activators such as benzoyl caprolactain exhibit improved dingy clean-up performance.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1997Date of Patent: August 3, 1999Assignee: Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Chanchal Kumar Ghosh, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Catherine Michelle Quinn
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Patent number: 5929017Abstract: A lipolytic enzyme with high activity at alkaline pH in the absence of Ca.sup.++ can be obtained from strains of filamentous fungi belonging to the genus Absidia. The lipolytic enzymes are effective for improving the effect of detergents towards fatty soiling.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 1997Date of Patent: July 27, 1999Assignee: Novonordisk A/SInventors: Erik Gormsen, Naoko Ikegami, Masanobu Abo, Shinobu Takagi, Noriko Tsutsumi, Torben Halkier
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Patent number: 5928381Abstract: A process for simultaneously desizing and bleaching of a sized fabric containing starch or starch derivatives, which process comprises treating the fabric with a bleaching composition and an oxidation stable .alpha.-amylase.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1996Date of Patent: July 27, 1999Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/SInventors: Annette Hanne Toft, Dorthe Marcher, Hanne H.o slashed.st Pedersen, Thomas Erik Nilsson
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Patent number: 5929018Abstract: There is provided a non-phosphate builder-containing detergent composition formulated with a surfactant, a water-soluble organic polymeric polycarboxylic compound, a chelant, an amylase and a source of alkalinity, wherein (a) said water-soluble organic polymeric polycarboxylic compound is in amount less than 3% by weight, (b) said chelant is in amount from 0.1% to 10% by weight, (c) said amylase is in amount from 0.001% to 5% by weight, and (d) said alkalinity source has the capacity to deliver alkalinity to a wash solution as measured by the alkalinity release test described herein, such that the % weight NaOH equivalent of the composition is greater than 8.0% by weight of the composition. Also provided herein is a method for reducing fabric encrustation which comprises contacting the fabric with an effective amount of an aqueous solution of said detergent composition.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1997Date of Patent: July 27, 1999Assignee: Procter & Gamble Co.Inventors: Gerard Marcel Baillely, Richard Timothy Hartshorn, Christian Leo Marie Vermote
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Patent number: 5925609Abstract: A non-phosphate builder-containing detergent composition comprising a surfactant, and a) at least 0.5% by weight of a source of hydrogen peroxide; b) from 0.01% to 10% by weight of an organic peroxyacid bleach precursor; c) from 0.001% to 5% by weight of a proteolytic enzyme; d) an alkalinity source having the capacity to deliver alkalinity to a wash solution as measured by the alkalinity release test described herein, such that the % weight of NaOH equivalent of the composition is greater than 10.6% by weight of the composition, and wherein the detergent composition has a Hydrogen peroxide Precursor Proteolytic enzyme (HPP) Index of at least 0.35 as defined by the formula: ##EQU1## wherein the % weight of proteolytic enzyme in the formulation is based on an enzyme activity of 13 knpu/g of the enzyme particle, and wherein the % AvO.sub.2 is the total amount of available oxygen present in the composition is provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1997Date of Patent: July 20, 1999Assignee: Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Gerard Marcel Baillely, Richard Timothy Hartshorn, Christian Leo Marie Vermote
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Patent number: 5922083Abstract: Soaking compositions are disclosed which comprise a bleach, a builder; an anionic surfactant, a proteolytic enzyme; and a stability enhanced amylase enzyme. A process of soaking fabrics is also disclosed, wherein said fabrics are immersed in a soaking liquor comprising water and an effective amount of the composition above.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1997Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Assignee: Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Lamberto Biscarini, Marina Trani
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Patent number: 5914301Abstract: A multipurpose detergent composed of: soda ash 40%.about.30% by weight; sodium sulfate 18%.about.25% by weight; sodium lauryl sulfate 23%.about.10% by weight; coconut oil fatty diethanolamide 11%.about.3% by weight; sodium carbonate peroxide 23%.about.10% by weight; citric acid 12%.about.3% by weight; sodium metasilicate 10%.about.2.5% by weight; carboxy methyl cellulose 7%.about.2% by weight; sodium lauroyl lactylate 15%.about.7% by weight; sodium polycrylate 5%.about.1% by weight; and natural enzyme 8%.about.2% by weight.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1997Date of Patent: June 22, 1999Inventors: Yu-Chao Hsu, Wan-Yee Pan
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Patent number: 5912405Abstract: The invention is directed to a method of bleaching dye or colorant in solution which comprises a phenol oxidizing enzyme (e.g. A peroxidase or a laccase) and an enhancing agent (e.g. acetosyringone).Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1997Date of Patent: June 15, 1999Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/SInventors: Palle Schneider, Ture Damhus
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Patent number: 5908821Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions for inhibiting dye transfer between fabrics during washing. The compositions are specifically selected metallo catalysts; namely, porphyrins and phthalocyanines. Detergent compositions containing such porphyrins and/or phthalocyanines are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 1996Date of Patent: June 1, 1999Assignee: Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Regine Labeque, James Pyott Johnston
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Patent number: 5902781Abstract: Composite particles comprise a bleach catalyst plus one or more detersive enzymes. The particles are especially useful in automatic dishwashing compositions. Thus, a cobalt (III) or manganese (III) bleach catalyst is combined with protease or amylase enzymes and a carrier. The resulting particles are used in combination with perborate or percarbonate bleach to clean dishware in an automatic machine.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1997Date of Patent: May 11, 1999Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Jeffrey Donald Painter
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Patent number: 5877139Abstract: There is provided an enzymatic detergent composition comprising one or more surfactants and an endoglucanase which is not a Family 7 cellulase, which contains no cellulose binding domain and wherein the catalytic domain contains at least two disulphide bridges. Preferably, the endoglucanase is producible from Thermomonospora fusca, or mutants or variants thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1996Date of Patent: March 2, 1999Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Eric Casteleijn, Willem R. van Dijk, Jan Klugkist, Pieter Dirk van Wassenaar