Patents Assigned to CHR. Hansen A/S
  • Publication number: 20110008492
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for coagulating bovine milk and making cheese using a coagulant substantially identical to a chymosin originating from an animal of the Tylopoda suborder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: CHR. HANSEN A/S
    Inventors: Mikkel Laust Broe, Johannes Van Den Brink, Marianne Kirsten Harboe
  • Publication number: 20100285175
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a dairy product using an enzyme having lactase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicants: Novozymes A/S, Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Hanne Vang Hendriksen, Steffen Ernst, Reinhard Wilting, Jeppe Wegener Tams, Mette Oerhrstroem Runge, Helle Skov Guldager
  • Publication number: 20100266724
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an acidified milk drink using an enzyme having phenoloxidase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicants: Novozymes A/S, Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Jeppe Wegener Tams, Preben Nielsen, Kirk Matthew Schnorr
  • Patent number: 7776581
    Abstract: A polypeptide comprising an aspartic protease such as chymosin which is modified so as to comprise at least one —N—X-T-glycosylation site and a method for producing such a polypeptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Johannes M. van den Brink, Marianne K. Harboe, Steen G. Petersen, Henrik Rahbek-Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20100178387
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for making cheese of the continental type or the cheddar type, especially reduced-fat or low-fat cheese.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: CHR. HANSEN A/S
    Inventors: Marie-Claude Bezenger, Ilka Eppert, Niels Kristian Soerensen, Erik Hoeier, Anne-Gaelle Le Tual, Mikkel Laust Broe
  • Publication number: 20100166875
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a colouring composition to be used in the manufacture of food and pharmaceutical products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Klaus Koehler, Soeren Jan Jacobsen
  • Publication number: 20100151081
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an acidified milk drink using an enzyme which reduces the isoelectric point of the milk proteins. The invention also relates to a novel enzyme having deamidase activity and its use in production of an acidified milk drink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicants: Novozymes A/S, CHR. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Jeppe Wegener Tams, Preben Nielsen
  • Patent number: 7732184
    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 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Boerge Kringelum, Lene Kragelund
  • Publication number: 20100129322
    Abstract: Many probiotic Bifidobacteriacea contains an active tetW that renders the cells resistant to tetracycline. This presents a theoretical risk of a horizontal transfer of functional antibiotic genes. The present invention relates to novel tetracycline-sensitive strains of the well-known probiotic Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis strain BB-12® and the use of such novel strains for the preparation of a food or feed product or a dosage form comprising viable organisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: CHR. HANSEN A/S
    Inventor: Per Stroeman
  • Patent number: 7718171
    Abstract: Use of a composition obtainable by a process comprising fermenting a food material, comprising animal milk or vegetable proteins, with a lactic acid bacterium to obtain a fermented food material which comprises active components with heart rate reducing properties for the manufacture of a product for reducing the heart rate and/or the fluctuations in the heart rate of a mammalian.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventor: Bénédicte Flambard
  • Patent number: 7641704
    Abstract: A method for the preparation of carminic acid lakes, novel carminic acid lake compositions and their uses in foods, such as yogurt, fruit preparations, beverages, other miscellaneous food products that may need a stable red color, and in cosmetics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: CHR-Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Julie Faust Schmidt-Jacobsen, Rikke Sakstrup Frandsen
  • Publication number: 20090291166
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing ice cream with a phospholipase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicants: Novozymes A/S, Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Don Higgins, Thomas Lykke Soerensen, Tine Muxoll Fatum, Per Munk Nielsen, Helle Skov Guldager
  • Publication number: 20090215027
    Abstract: A new method and a system for the simultaneous determination of a biological, chemical and/or physical property of a plurality of individual samples of a turbid is described. The invention relates to a system and colorimetric method for simultaneous determination and measuring properties, such as acidification or pH value, redox potentials, viscosity, diffusion, enzymatic activity, etc. of a plurality of individual samples of a turbid or opaque medium, such as, e.g. milk, whey and related products. In particular, this invention relates to a method for non-invasively and/or non-destructively scanning samples or an array of samples, and determine on the basis of the scanning a specific property, such as pH, of the samples. The method may also be used for multivariate determinations of chemical and/or physical properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2005
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Ulf Houlberg, Peer Herbsleb, Joseph Sturino
  • Patent number: 7491507
    Abstract: Use of a lactic acid bacterium comprising a cell wall proteinase of around 200 kDa to prepare peptides with anti-hypertensive properties and a method for obtaining such a lactic acid bacterium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventor: Bénédicte Flambard
  • Publication number: 20080260903
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for producing a phospholipase by processing an expressed fungal peptide and to certain specified phospholipases. Furthermore the invention provides a method for producing cheese with a phospholipase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicants: Novozymes A/S, Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Mary Ann Stringer, Tine Muxoll Fatum, Shamkant Anant Patkar
  • Patent number: 7396807
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for producing a phospholipase by processing an expressed fungal peptide and to certain specified phospholipases. Furthermore the invention provides a method for producing cheese with a phospholipase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignees: Novozymes A/S, Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Mary Ann Stringer, Tine Muxoll Fatum, Shamkant Anant Patkar
  • Publication number: 20080145481
    Abstract: A device for the continuous dosage of frozen starter cultures into a liquid fermentation medium is provided. The device comprises a fermentation unit and a container for the thawing of the starter cultures. It further comprises means of retaining the frozen cultures inside the thawing container while allowing the culture in liquid form to feed into a circuit for continuously feeding the fermentation medium to be inoculated. Furthermore, a method of dosing a frozen inoculant into a liquid fermentation medium is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: CHR. HANSEN A/S
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Posseme, Jean-Claude Bercetche, Jean-Marie Odinot
  • Patent number: 7358083
    Abstract: Novel food-grade cloning vectors comprising a nonsense mutation suppressor-encoding gene, which vector, when it is present in a lactic acid bacterial strain, permits such a strain to have an industrially appropriate growth rate and metabolic activity. The cloning vectors are useful when present in lactic acid bacteria used as starter cultures in the preparation of food or feed products, or a dairy flavor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Kim Sorensen, Rasmus Larsen, Eric Johansen
  • Patent number: 7309610
    Abstract: The present invention relates to dynamically controlling the expansion of a fluid bed reactor system. By mounting a density detector to a floating body that floats on top of the carrying medium in the fluid bed, one can detect the density at a certain position that is level with the sensor head of the detector. Upon comparing the density detected with a pre-determined density, the flow velocity of the carrying medium is adjusted accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Morten Meldgaard, Peer Herbsleb, Jacob Bjorholm, Ulf Houlberg
  • Patent number: 7270989
    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: March 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignees: CHR. Hansen A/S, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich
    Inventors: Stefan Kappeler, Zakaria Farah, Johannes Maarten van den Brink, Henrik Rahbek-Nielsen, Peter Budtz