Patents Assigned to AJINOMOTO CO. IN
  • Publication number: 20240058473
    Abstract: The present invention provides a highly controlled complex comprising an antibody and ferritin particles. More specifically, the present invention provides the inventions of a complex or salt thereof comprising (A) one IgG antibody and (B) two human ferritin particles comprising one or more human ferritin H chains linked thereto; and methods for producing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Kei YAMADA, Yutaka MATSUDA, Ippei INOUE, Natsuki SHIKIDA, Kazutaka SHIMBO
  • Publication number: 20240035001
    Abstract: A bacteriophage which consists of the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 or a nucleotide sequence having 90% or more identity thereto, as its genome, is capable of infecting and lysing a diabetes-inducible bacterium belonging to Fusimonas intestini,containing a cyclic single-stranded DNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicants: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Keishi KAMEYAMA, Hideyuki TAMAKI, Hiroyuki KUSADA, Yoichi KAMAGATA
  • Publication number: 20240034874
    Abstract: A resin sheet including a support and a resin composition layer formed on the support, in which the resin composition layer contains (A) an epoxy resin, (B) an organic solvent, (C) an inorganic filler, and (D) a stress relaxing material, in which a content of an aromatic solvent having a boiling point of lower than 120° C. in the (B) component is in the range of 0 to 9% by mass relative to 100% by mass of total of the (B) component, can suppress an irregularity after lamination and a warpage after curing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Shu IKEHIRA
  • Patent number: 11884814
    Abstract: Resin compositions including (A) a hollow organic polymer particle, (B) an epoxy resin, and (C) a curing agent provide cured products having a superior smear removal properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11884951
    Abstract: A method for producing RNA is provided. Objective RNA is produced by culturing a coryneform bacterium having an expression unit for the objective RNA, which has been modified so that the activity of ribonuclease III is reduced, in a medium, to express the objective RNA and accumulate the objective RNA in cells of the bacterium, and collecting the objective RNA from the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Shuhei Hashiro, Hisashi Yasueda, Mayu Mitsuhashi, Sergei Vladimirovich Mashko, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Krylov, Yuliya Sergeevna Lobanova
  • Publication number: 20240023565
    Abstract: A frozen shumai in which hardening of a part of a shumai wrapper which is not in contact with a shumai filling is suppressed, and deterioration of texture during eating is improved even when the frozen shumai taken out from a freezer is heated as it is in a microwave oven without a treatment or operation of spraying water on the surface of the frozen shumai or covering the frozen shumai with a food wrap film is provided. Specifically, a frozen shumai containing a shumai wrapper and a shumai filling, wherein a water content of a part of the shumai wrapper which is not in contact with the shumai filling is 35 wt % to 80 wt % after heating the shumai as it is in a microwave oven until a core temperature of the shumai reaches 50° C. to 90° C. is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventor: Yuki SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240026343
    Abstract: Provided is a quick and simple method for screening dimerized cyclic peptides, a library therefor, and molecules including cyclic peptides that can be used in the method and the library. For example, the method for screening dimerized cyclic peptides includes (1) a step in which, in a cell-free expression system, a cyclic peptide, a dimerization domain including a cysteine residue and a leucine zipper region, and at least one polypeptide including a peptide linker existing between the cyclic peptide and the dimerization domain are synthesized, and a dimer of the polypeptide is prepared, and (2) a step in which activity based on binding between the dimer and a target molecule is measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Ito, Kyohei Miyairi
  • Publication number: 20240016194
    Abstract: Livestock meat flavor-imparting agents containing a heated product of crude sugar, and cysteine or a salt thereof are useful for imparting livestock meat flavors without containing livestock meat materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Ryusuke KOBA, Miyako SOETA
  • Publication number: 20240018180
    Abstract: Oxidizing an oligonucleotide precursor having a phosphite ester bond or a phosphonate ester bond with an oxidant, wherein the oxidant is a compound represented by the formula (I) excluding 2,2-dipyridyl disulfide: wherein the symbols are as defined in the specification is useful for producing an oligonucleotide having a phosphate ester bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko HAYAKAWA, Taisuke ICHIMARU, Satoshi INOUE, Daisuke TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240018272
    Abstract: the present invention provides a method for producing a protein having a supramolecular structure in which a bioactive substance is encapsulated, comprising: (I) bringing a subunit of a protein, which forms a supramolecular structure, a bioactive substance, and a solution for forming the protein having the supramolecular structure from the subunit into contact with one another in a flow micro mixer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi NAKAHARA, Yuta ENDO, Ippei INOUE, Takahiro OKASORA, Junko YAMAZAKI HOSHIDA, Sachise KARAKAWA
  • Patent number: 11871728
    Abstract: A feeding management system for a free stall cow barn includes an evaluation-related information storage unit, an association information storage unit, an evaluating unit, a selecting unit, a transmission unit, a reading unit, a feed information acquiring unit, a device information acquiring unit, and a control information transmitting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuki Nakagawa, Takeshi Fujieda, Takashi Mikami, Kazuhiro Sato, Ai Onishi
  • Publication number: 20240000964
    Abstract: A desired antibody or antibody composition may be obtained by modifying a thiol group chemically introduced to an antibody to obtain an antibody composition comprising (A) an antibody intermediate or a salt thereof having a bioorthogonal functional group which may be protected, which is represented by the following formula (A): AbS-L-R]n??(A) wherein Ab is a certain antibody, S is a sulfur atom, L is a divalent group, R is a bioorthogonal functional group which may be protected, and n is an integer from 1 to 8, and (B) a thiol group-introduced antibody or a salt thereof, which is represented by the following formula (B): AbSH]n??(B) wherein Ab and n are the same as formulae (A), and SH is a thiol group; and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Tomohiro FUJII, Kei YAMADA, Yutaka MATSUDA, Ryusuke HIRAMA, Noriko HATADA
  • Publication number: 20240000965
    Abstract: Compounds and salts thereof represented by the following formula (I): wherein X indicates a leaving group, Y indicates an affinity peptide having a binding region to a CH2 domain in an immunoglobulin unit containing two heavy chains and two light chains, O indicates an oxygen atom, S indicates a sulfur atom, W indicates an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, La indicates a first linker, Lb indicates a second linker, and the total number of atoms constituting a main chain in the first linker and atoms constituting a main chain in the second linker are 5 to 7, facilitate regioselective modification of an antibody with a functional substance and control of the bonding ratio of the antibody to the functional substance within a desired range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Noriko HATADA, Kei YAMADA, Yutaka MATSUDA, Tomohiro FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240002129
    Abstract: To provide a set for microwave heating that is capable of giving a crispy texture to a food by using a heating element configured to generate heat by microwave irradiation and is capable of maintaining softness of a portion in a surface of a food other than a fried face if any, and to provide a package including the set for microwave heating and an outer packaging bag configured to accommodate the set for microwave heating. Provided is a set for microwave heating, comprising: a tray; a food accommodated in the tray; and a heating laminate comprising a heating element configured to generate heat by microwave irradiation, and a substrate, wherein the heating laminate is disposed in such a way that the heating element side faces the food, and the substrate is laminated on a face of the heating element, the face being opposite to another face of the heating element, the another face being to be or come in contact with the food.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Kaoru HOSOKAWA, Yasuhiro ABE
  • Patent number: 11857596
    Abstract: The present invention provides a coated-type feed additive composition for improving body weight gain of livestock or feed conversion ratio for livestock comprising: a core containing a physiologically active substance having a property of strengthening a membrane of intestinal epithelial cells; and a core coating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Akinori Uehara, Kazuki Nakagawa, Mayumi Maekawa
  • Patent number: 11859205
    Abstract: Culture media, which contain albumin carrying a reduced amount of fatty acid, are useful for culturing stem cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Yoko Kuriyama, Sho Senda, Yumi Ando, Tomomi Yoshida, Haruna Sato, Daisuke Ejima, Takayoshi Fujii, Masayo Date, Manabu Kitazawa
  • Patent number: 11856977
    Abstract: A mixing apparatus is configured to efficiently input noodles coated with an additive to a receiving tray, with no need to perform weighing again after the noodles are input to the receiving tray. The mixing apparatus includes at least two hoppers that each house falling noodles and that allows the noodles to fall through rotation of the hoppers. A supply device supplies a sauce to the noodles in the hoppers, and the two hoppers are spaced from one another in the falling direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: MAYEKAWA MFG. CO., LTD., AJINOMOTO. CO., INC.
    Inventors: Shigeto Koga, Hiroshi Fujita, Yoshihiro Uchida, Kazuhiro Toyota, Takahiro Kawasoe
  • Publication number: 20230416793
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing an L-amino acid such as L-glutamic acid and the like. An L-amino-acid is produced by cultivating a coryneform bacterium having L-amino acid-producing ability in a culture medium, which has been modified so as to have one or more of the following modifications: (A) a modification for increasing activity of acetate kinase, (B) a modification for increasing activity of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase, (C) a modification for decreasing activity of pyruvate dehydrogenase, (D) a modification for decreasing activity of aspartate transaminase, and (E) a modification for decreasing activity of malic enzyme; and collecting the L-amino acid from the culture medium and/or the bacterial cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Seiko Hirano, Kota Inoue, Kazuyuki Hayashi, Kosuke Yokota, Mika Moriya, Tomoko Suzuki, Yoshitomo Kadokura, Takeshi Nagahiko, Akari Tashiro
  • Patent number: 11851688
    Abstract: The present invention provides a 2-OST mutant exhibiting a high activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Chihiro Tsuji, Tomoko Shimizu, Uno Tagami, Yasuhiro Mihara, Masayuki Sugiki, Shogo Nakano, Tomoharu Motoyama, Sohei Ito
  • Publication number: 20230399673
    Abstract: A microorganism useful as an expression host for ?-Glu-Val synthetase and a method for producing ?-Glu-Val-Gly using ?-Glu-Val synthetase expressed in the microorganism are provided. By using ?-Glu-Val synthetase expressed in a bacterium, such as Escherichia bacteria, modified so that the activity of a protein encoded by a ybdK gene (YBDK) is reduced as an expression host, ?-Glu-Val-Gly is produced from Glu, Val, and Gly as raw materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Ayako SASAHARA, Takayuki ITO, Hiroyuki NOZAKI