Patents Assigned to Glycom A/S
  • Patent number: 11939351
    Abstract: It is provided i) an amorphous carbohydrate with improved chemical stability and/or physical features, ii) a method for producing an amorphous carbohydrate with improved chemical stability and/or physical features, and iii) a method for improving the chemical stability and/or the physical features of an amorphous carbohydrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GLYCOM A/S
    Inventors: Benjámin Podányi, Pierre Chassagne, Martin Matwiejuk, Markus Jondelius Hederos
  • Patent number: 11926858
    Abstract: The invention relates to a genetically modified microorganism for making a oligosaccharide, preferably of 3-8 monosaccharide units, more preferably of 3-5 monosaccharide units, particularly a HMO, which comprises one or more genes encoding a sucrose utilization system, so the microorganism can use sucrose as a carbon and energy source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GLYCOM A/S
    Inventors: Margit Pedersen, Manos Papadakis, Peter Becker, Eric Samain, Pauline Peltier-Pain, Katrine Bych, Ted Johanson, Elise Champion, Gyula Dekany
  • Patent number: 11919919
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for the enzymatic synthesis of oligosaccharides, preferably human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) The method comprises the enzymatic transfer of a glycosyl moiety and subsequent removal of by-products, such as lactose, by nanofiltration using a membrane comprising an active polyamide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GLYCOM A/S
    Inventors: Nikolay Khanzhin, Markus Jondelius Hederos
  • Patent number: 11896604
    Abstract: The application relates to a method for the prophylaxis or treatment of non-infectious diarrhea in a human, the method comprising administering to the human an effective amount of one or more human milk oligosaccharides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Glycom A/S
    Inventors: Bruce McConnell, Emma Elison, Louise Kristine Vigsnæs
  • Patent number: 11896605
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to compositions and methods for preventing or treating mast cell mediated visceral pain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Glycom A/S
    Inventors: Louise Kristine Vigsnæs, Bruce McConnell, Emma Elison
  • Patent number: 11890293
    Abstract: A method includes selecting a non-infant patient having an obesity-related metabolic disorder and being diagnosable with one or more of obesity, obesity-induced pre-diabetes, and obesity-induced type 2 diabetes. The method further includes selecting an effective amount of one or more human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) selected from: fucosylated HMOs 2?-fucosyllactose (2?-FL), 3-fucosyllactose (3-FL), lacto-N-fucopentaose I (LNFP-I), and difucosyllactose (DFL); non-fucosylated HMOs lacto-N-tetraose (LNT), lacto-N-neotetraose (LNnT), 3?,6-disialyllacto-N-tetraose (DSLNT), 6?-sialyllactose (6?-SL), and 3?-sialyllactose (3?-SL); and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Glycom A/S
    Inventors: Bruce McConnell, Louise Kristine Vigsnæs, Emma Elison
  • Patent number: 11833165
    Abstract: The application relates to a method for treating a patient with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), the method comprising administering to the patient one or more neutral human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) selected from 2?-fucosyllactose (2?-FL), 3-fucosyllactose (3-FL), difucosyllactose (DFL), lacto-N-fucopentaose I, lacto-N-tetraose (LNT), lacto-N-neotetraose (LNnT), and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: GLYCOM A/S
    Inventors: Thierry Hennet, Bruce McConnell, Emma Elison, Louise Kristine Vigsnæs
  • Patent number: 11767340
    Abstract: The invention relates to crystalline polymorphs of lacto-N-tetraose (LNT) and methods for making the same for use in pharmaceutical compositions, nutritional formulations and food supplements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: GLYCOM A/S
    Inventors: Martin Matwiejuk, Pierre Chassagne, Markus Jondelius Hederos
  • Patent number: 11696921
    Abstract: A human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) or a synthetic composition comprising said HMO, for use in increasing the abundance, particularly the relative abundance, of a Bifidobacterium of the B. adolescentis phylogenic group in the microbiota in the gastro-intestinal tract of a human, preferably a non-infant human. The HMO(s) and/or synthetic composition is useful in; increasing particularly the relative abundance of B. adolescentis and/or B. pseudocatenulatum; for treating or preventing in said non-infant human with type 2 diabetes and/or obesity; an enteropathogenic infection; impaired gut barrier function and/or; an inflammation related to gastro¬intestinal condition, preferably irritable bowel disease (IBD) or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS); as a nutritional composition. The HMO is a fucosylated neutral HMO, a non-fucosylated neutral HMO, or a mixture of a fucosylated and a non-fucosylated neutral HMO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: GLYCOM A/S
    Inventors: Louise Kristine Vigsnæs, Bruce McConnell
  • Patent number: 11684630
    Abstract: A synthetic composition for use in improving one or more co-morbid mental disorder symptoms of a patient with IBS, characterised in that the composition contains an effective amount of one or more neutral human milk oligosaccharides, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: GLYCOM A/S
    Inventors: Bruce McConnell, Emma Elison, Louise Kristine Vigsnæs
  • Patent number: 11608504
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of recombining production of biological molecules in host cells. The invention provides nucleic acid constructs that allow to modify expression of a desired gene using both in vitro and in vivo gene expression systems. The constructs can advantageously be used to produce a variety of biological molecules recombinantly in industrial scales, e.g. human milk oligosaccharides (HMO).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: GLYCOM A/S
    Inventors: Margit Pedersen, Manos Papadakis
  • Patent number: 11602545
    Abstract: The invention relates to a human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) for use in, a synthetic composition comprising an HMO for use in and a method for preventing or treating migraine in a human.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Glycom A/S
    Inventors: Bruce McConnell, Louise Kristine Vigsnæs
  • Patent number: 11554131
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method, compounds and compositions for the secondary prevention, treatment or dietary management of symptomatic and asymptomatic non-intestinal autoimmune diseases in a non-infant human including Sjogren's syndrome and type 1 diabetes. Said method, compounds and compositions for the secondary prevention, treatment or dietary management include human milk oligosaccharide (HMO), preferably mixtures of human milk oligosaccharides selected from the group of 2?-FL, LNnT, LNT, DFL, and 6?-SL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Glycom A/S
    Inventors: Louise Kristine Vigsnæs, Bruce McConnell, Kristine Rothaus Christensen
  • Patent number: 11541068
    Abstract: The invention relates to human milk oligosaccharides (HMO) and its use in treatment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Glycom A/S
    Inventors: Bruce McConnell, Louise Kristine Vigsnæs
  • Patent number: 11541067
    Abstract: A method and a composition comprising human milk oligosaccharides for decreasing the production of detrimental proteolytic metabolites such as ammonia and branched chain fatty acids in the intestinal microbiota of humans, which is useful for the treatment of brain-gut disorders like autism, stress, anxiety, and depressive disorders, are disclosed. Methods of treatment of colon cancer and liver damage are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Glycom A/S
    Inventors: Louise Kristine Vigsnæs, Bruce McConnell
  • Patent number: 11541069
    Abstract: The invention relates to a human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) for use in reducing or preventing fatigue and/or improving focus or concentration on a mental or physical activity in a human. The invention also relates to a synthetic composition for use, comprising one or more of said HMOs. The invention further relates to a method for reducing or preventing fatigue and/or improving focus or concentration on a mental or physical activity by administering at least one HMO and the use of said one or more HMOs in a dietary management of a human.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Glycom A/S
    Inventors: Bruce McConnell, Louise Kristine Vigsnæs, Ingvild Dybdrodt Amundsen
  • Patent number: 11529365
    Abstract: A method and composition including an effective amount of one or more synthetic neutral HMOs are disclosed for modulating the microbiota in the gastro-intestinal tracts of non-infant humans who are carriers of the human fucosyltransferase 2 (FUT2) genetic mutation and for improving one or more gastrointestinal conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Glycom A/S
    Inventors: Bruce McConnell, Louise Kristine Vigsnæs
  • Patent number: 11529364
    Abstract: A method for treating metabolic disorders in non-infant includes administering to an obese non-infant human during a treatment period an effective amount of a mixture of two or more synthetic neutral human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) selected from 2?-fucosyllactose (2?FL), 3-fucosyllactose (3-FL), difucosyllactose (DFL), lacto-N-fucopentaose I (LNFP-I), lacto-N-tetraose (LNT), and lacto-N-neotetraose (LNnT), and optionally one or more excipients. The method further includes increasing in the gastrointestinal microbiota of the non-infant human during the treatment period, the relative abundance of Bifidobacterium adolescentis and reducing in the non-infant human during the treatment period, a precursor condition for a metabolic disorder associated with development of one or more of obesity-induced pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes, the precursor condition selected from gut permeability, metabolic endotoxemia, low-grade metabolic inflammation, and body fat percentage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Glycom A/S
    Inventors: Emma Elison, Bruce McConnell, Thierry Hennet, Louise Kristine Vigsnæs
  • Patent number: 11524019
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and composition for inducing allergen tolerance in a patient suffering from an atopic allergy or allergic asthma; hence reducing allergy symptoms in these patients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Glycom A/S
    Inventors: Bruce McConnell, Louise Kristine Vigsnæs
  • Patent number: 11505567
    Abstract: It is provided i) an amorphous carbohydrate with improved chemical stability and/or physical features, ii) a method for producing an amorphous carbohydrate with improved chemical stability and/or physical features, and iii) a method for improving the chemical stability and/or the physical features of an amorphous carbohydrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: GLYCOM A/S
    Inventors: Benjámin Podányi, Pierre Chassagne, Martin Matwiejuk, Markus Jondelius Hederos