Patents Assigned to CHR. Hansen A/S
  • Bile resistant composition secreting high levels of essential amino acids
    Patent number: 8741280
    Abstract: A bacillus composition characterized by fast germination and outgrowth in bile salts (simulated gut environment) and by high-level secretion of essential amino acid. The bacillus composition may be used as supplement in animal feed where it has a probiotic (health promoting) effect and increases the digestion and availability of nutrients from animal feeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Mette Dines Cantor, Patrick Derkx, Inge Knap, Ane Knarreborg, Thomas Dyrmann Leser, Lund Bente
  • Metalloporphyrin Inducible Promoter
    Publication number: 20140120577
    Abstract: The invention relates to a promoter inducible by metalloporphyrins. Said promoter is useful for controlling the expression of genes of interest in gram-positive bacteria deficient in heme biosynthesis, in particular lactic acid bacteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicants: CHR HANSEN A/S, INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE
    Inventors: Alexandra Gruss, Philippe Gaudu, Bénédicte Cesselin, Delphine Lechardeur, Christel Garrigues, Martin Bastian Pedersen
  • LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM CELLS WITH IMPROVED RESISTANCE TO HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF ETHANOL
    Publication number: 20140120210
    Abstract: Cycloserine resistant mutants of lactic acid bacteria characterized by having improved resistance towards ethanol. The cycloserine resistant mutants of lactic acid bacteria can e.g. be used for malolactic fermentations of wine (i.e. including sparkling wine such as Cava/champagne) having high alcohol levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: CHR-HANSEN A/S
    Inventors: Kim Ib Soerensen, Annette Kibenich, Eric Johansen
  • CAROTENOID COLORING COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20140113027
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for coloring foods, beverages, animal feeds, cosmetics or drugs comprising 1) dissolved carotenoid emulsified as an oil-in-water emulsion using a suitable emulsifier and 2) crystalline carotenoid encapsulated in a suitable hydrocolloid, making it water-dispersible and thereby miscible with the oil-in-water emulsified carotenoid fraction, mixed in a ratio of between 1:100 to 100:1. The present invention further relates to a method for preparing the coloring composition, a method for preparing a food, beverage, animal feed, cosmetic or drug and a food, beverage, animal feed, cosmetic or drug comprising the coloring composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: CHR-HANSEN A/S
    Inventors: Jens Moeller, Bjoern Madsen, Dorthe Lauridsen
  • Lactic acid bacteria strain and its use for the protection of food products
    Patent number: 8697422
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a strain of Lactobacillus curvatusbacteria deposited in the Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen and Zellkulturen GmBH (DSMZ) under the accession number DSM 18775, as well as to compositions, cultures and food products comprising thereof. The strain of the invention is useful for preserving food products, especially under refrigerated conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: CHR. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Louise Heller Stahnke, Tina Hornbaek, Birthe Jelle
  • strain with high vitamin K2 production
    Patent number: 8673616
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel wild-type Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris bacteria strain with increased vitamin K2 production and mutants and variants thereof and methods for preparation of a fermented food or feed product enriched in vitamin K2 and a vitamin K enriched edible product for amelioration and/or prevention of vitamin K deficiency. The present invention also relates to the fermented food or feed product and the edible product obtainable by the methods herein and to the wild-type Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris bacteria strain for use in treatment and/or prevention of vitamin K deficiency in a mammal, such as a human.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: CHR. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Christel Garrigues, Martin Bastian Pedersen
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING NON-BOVINE CHYMOSIN AND USE HEREOF
    Publication number: 20140072670
    Abstract: A method of recombinantly producing a non-bovine pre-prochymosin, prochymosin or chymosin derived from ruminant species including deer species, buffalo species, antelope species, giraffe species, ovine species and caprine species; Camefidae species such as Came/us dromedarius; porcine species; or Equ;dae species. The recombinant enzymes are used in milk coagulating compositions in cheese manufacturing based on cow's milk and milk from any animal species which are used in cheese manufacturing including camel's milk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicants: Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich, CHR. HANSEN A/S
    Inventors: Stefan KAPPELER, Zakaria Farah, Johannes Maarten Van den Brink, Henrik Rahbek-Nielsen, Peter Budtz
  • Bile resistant composition secreting high levels of phytase
    Patent number: 8642305
    Abstract: A bacillus composition characterized by fast germination and outgrowth in bile salts (simulated gut environment) and by high-level secretion of phytase. The bacillus composition may be used as supplement in animal feed where it has a probiotic (health promoting) effect and increases the digestion and availability of nutrients from animal feeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Inge Knap, Ane Knarreborg, Thomas Dyrmann Leser, Bente Lund
  • CARMINE FOOD COLORING COMPOSITION WITH HIGH STABILITY
    Publication number: 20140017366
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a carmine food coloring composition with high stability towards acidity and heat and its uses for coloring foodstuffs, such as fruit preparations and dairy products. The carmine food coloring composition comprises a dispersion of carmine lake blended with a solution of dissolved carmine lake. The present invention further relates to a method for preparing the carmine food coloring composition and uses of such carmine food coloring composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: CHR-HANSEN A/S
    Inventors: Elisabeth Roca, Patrick Lemonnier, Regis Roubille
  • Of growth of Bifidobacteria in fermented milk products
    Patent number: 8628763
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the preparation of a fermented milk product comprising Bifidobacteria in combination with lactic acid bacteria of the species Lactococcus lactis, Sterptococcus thermophilus, and/or Lactobacillus bulgaricus. The problem to be solved is to provide a method to improve growth of Bifidobacteria population in milk during the fermentation process for making fermented milk products (e.g. a yogurt) in order to obtain a high cell count of Bifidobacteria in the final product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: CHR-Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Ditte Marie Folkenberg, Cecile Seimandi
  • TEXTURIZING LACTIC ACID BACTERIA STRAINS
    Publication number: 20130344199
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mutants of lactic acid bacteria which are resistant towards the antibiotic D-cycloserine and/or functionally equivalent antibiotics and which were found to give an increased texture when grown in milk while maintaining the other growth properties of the parent strain. The present invention, furthermore, relates to compositions comprising such mutants, and to dairy products fermented with the lactic acid bacteria resistant towards D-cycloserine and/or functionally equivalent antibiotics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: CHR. HANSEN A/S
    Inventors: Annette Kibenich, Kim Ib Soerensen, Eric Johansen
  • Liquid starter cultures having an improved storage stability and use thereof
    Patent number: 8597929
    Abstract: Liquid microbial starter culture that retains its initial metabolic activity during storage for extended periods of time. Such liquid starter cultures are useful in the manufacturing of food and feed products. Starter cultures of the invention include culture of lactic acid bacteria, e.g. Lactococcus species.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: CHR. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Boerge Kringelum, Lene Kragelund
  • PORPHYRIN CONTAINING LACTIC ACID BACTERIAL CELLS AND USE THEROF
    Publication number: 20130309754
    Abstract: Culturally modified lactic acid bacterial cells containing a porphyrin compound and their use in a novel method of reducing the oxygen content in a food and feed product or starting material is provided and means of improving the shelf life and/or quality of such products by using the culturally modified bacterial cells. Such culturally modified cells are useful in the manufacturing of a food and a feed product and for the manufacturing of metabolites produced by modified cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: CHR. HANSEN A/S
    Inventors: Geppel ASGER, Borge Windel KRINGELUM, Ken Flemming HANSEN, Stig Lykke IVERSEN, Claus Maxel HENRIKSEN
  • Method of producing non-bovine chymosin and use hereof
    Patent number: 8545909
    Abstract: A method of recombinantly producing a non-bovine pre-prochymosin, prochymosin or chymosin derived from ruminant species including deer species, buffalo species, antelope species, giraffe species, ovine species and caprine species; Camelidae species such as Camelus dromedarius; porcine species; or Equidae species. The recombinant enzymes are used in milk coagulating compositions in cheese manufacturing based on cow's milk and milk from any animal species which are used in cheese manufacturing including camel's milk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignees: Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Stefan Kappeler, Zakaria Farah, Johannes Maarten Van den Brink, Henrik Rahbek-Nielsen, Peter Budtz
  • Method for making lactic acid bacteria composition
    Patent number: 8501456
    Abstract: A method for making at least 2 kg (dry weight) of a lactic acid bacteria composition formulated with from 1% to 50% of ascorbate or ascorbic acid (w/w?dry matter) as antioxidant, wherein the pH is controlled so 3?pH?8 during at least the majority of the fermentation process by addition of a base not comprising NH3 (ammonia).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: CHR. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Birgitte Yde, Susanne Abrahamsen
  • COMPOSITION COMPRISING BACILLUS
    Publication number: 20130195826
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a composition comprising Bacillus subtilis (DSM 17231) and Bacillus licheniformis (DSM 17236) with nematicidal effect against phytonematodes on plants and/or its habitat, to its use and process for its preparation, use of Bacillus subtilis (DSM 17231) and Bacillus licheniformis (DSM 17236), processes for controlling, combating and conferring specific resistance to phytonematodes, and a kit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: CHR. HANSEN A/S
    Inventors: Abilio Alessandri, Inge Knap, Luciana Sekito De Freitas Zambelli
  • Porphyrin containing lactic acid bacterial cells and use thereof
    Patent number: 8486468
    Abstract: Culturally modified lactic acid bacterial cells containing a porphyrin compound and their use in a novel method of reducing the oxygen content in a food and feed product or starting material is provided and means of improving the shelf life and/or quality of such products by using the culturally modified bacterial cells. Such culturally modified cells are useful in the manufacturing of a food and a feed product and for the manufacturing of metabolites produced by modified cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Geppel Asger, Børge Windel Kringelum, Ken Flemming Hansen, Stig Lykke Iversen, Claus Maxel Henriksen
  • Frozen lactic acid bacterial culture of individual pellet
    Patent number: 8481027
    Abstract: A stable, pellet-frozen lactic acid bacteria (LAB) culture comprises at least one additive compound in a commercial relevant package. The pellet-frozen culture has at least 50 g frozen material and a content of viable bacteria of at least 109 colony forming units per gram of frozen material. The individual pellets of the frozen culture do not stick together and remain as individual pellets, when stored at about ?46° C., for at least 7 to 14 days.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Rikke Stavnsbjerg, Inge Knap, Hans Bisgaard-Frantzen, Borge Windel Kringelum
  • Growth of bifidobacteria in fermented milk products
    Patent number: 8449932
    Abstract: A method for the preparation of a fermented milk product comprising Bifidobacteria and Streptococcus thermophilus bacteria, wherein the Streptococcus thermophilus bacteria improve the growth of the Bifidobacteria during the fermentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Marie-Claude Bezenger, Jean-Marie Odinot, Cécile Seimandi
  • Antibiotic-sensitive lactic acid bacteria strains
    Patent number: 8440450
    Abstract: Many probiotic Bifidobacteriaceacontains an active tetW that renders the cells resistant to tetracycline. This may present a risk of a horizontal transfer of functional antibiotic genes. The present invention relates to a method of obtaining novel tetracycline-sensitive strains of the genus of Bifidobacteriacea (Bifidobacterium sp.). In particular, the present invention relates to novel antibiotic-sensitive strains obtained from antibiotic-resistant probiotic strains and the use of such novel strains for the preparation of a food or feed product or a dosage form comprising viable organisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventor: Per Strøman