Patents Assigned to New Zealand Limited
  • Patent number: 9830806
    Abstract: A system for enabling one person testing and remote control of a fire control panel and generating text-to-speech audio during a walkthrough test of fire alarm system is disclosed. Typically, a technician interacts with a simulated interface displayed on the display of the mobile computing device. In response, commands are generated and sent to the control panel to cause the control panel to perform requested actions. The control panel then sends updated control panel user interface displayed information to the mobile computing device reflecting technician entered commands. Testing of the detection devices on the fire control panel generates event data that is sent to the mobile computing device, which receives the event data and enables a technician to select filtering options. The event data are then parsed to identify keywords and text-to-speech audio is generated for the filtered event data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Tyco New Zealand Limited
    Inventors: Richard Alan Cree, Harry Hugh Frank Worrall, Yiping Zhu
  • Patent number: 9809812
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for the screening, identification and/or application of microorganisms and/or compositions of use in imparting beneficial properties to plants, and microorganisms and compositions identified therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: BIODISCOVERY NEW ZEALAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Peter John Wigley, Susan Jane Turner, Caroline Elizabeth George
  • Publication number: 20170290865
    Abstract: This invention provides pharmaceutical compositions, including anti-gastrointestinal cancer compositions, containing propolis and cyclodextrin. Methods of using such compositions, in particular in the treatment or prevention of gastrointestinal cancers, and the resensitisation of gastrointestinal cancers to therapy are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Manuka Health New Zealand Limited
    Inventors: Kerry PAUL, Owen John CATCHPOLE, Darina LAZAROVA
  • Patent number: 9783835
    Abstract: The invention provides methods and systems for the production of lipid products from a gaseous substrate using a two stage fermentation process. The method comprises providing a gaseous substrate comprising CO, CO2 and H2 or mixtures thereof, to a first bioreactor containing a culture or one or more microorganisms, and fermenting the substrate to produce a product comprising acetate. The acetate from the first bioreactor is then provided to a second bioreactor, where it is used as a substrate for fermentation to lipids by one or more yeasts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: LANZATECH NEW ZEALAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Sean Dennis Simpson, Sebastian Michal Bernasek
  • Patent number: 9777267
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for the screening, identification and/or application of microorganisms of use in imparting beneficial properties to plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: BIODISCOVERY NEW ZEALAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Susan Jane Turner, Peter John Wigley
  • Patent number: 9771603
    Abstract: A methods for altering the metabolite profile of a fermentation, by increasing flux through acetolactate. The methods comprises increasing production of one or more products derived from acetolactate. Further provided is a method for increasing the production of 2,3-butandiol by microbial fermentation of gaseous substrates, the method comprising providing a compound which inhibits one or more enzymes which convert acetolactate to branched chain amino acids to the fermentation. The present invention further provides methods for increasing the production of 2,3-butandiol relative to other fermentation products such as ethanol and acetic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: LANZATECH NEW ZEALAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Kathleen Frances Smart, Alexander Paul Mueller, Michael James Harry Mawdsley, Christophe Daniel Mihalcea
  • Patent number: 9745566
    Abstract: The present provides selection markers, methods, nucleic acids, and vectors of use in the preparation of recombinant Clostridium spp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: LANZATECH NEW ZEALAND LIMITED
    Inventors: David Jeffrey Fraser Walker, Shilpa Nagaraju, Michael Koepke, Alexander Paul Mueller
  • Patent number: 9738875
    Abstract: The invention relates to a genetically engineered bacterium comprising an energy-generating fermentation pathway and methods related thereto. In particular, the invention provides a bacterium comprising a phosphate butyryltransferase (Ptb) and a butyrate kinase (Buk) (Ptb-Buk) that act on non-native substrates to produce a wide variety of products and intermediates. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to the introduction of Ptb-Buk into a C1-fixing microoorgansim capable of producing products from a gaseous substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: LANZATECH NEW ZEALAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Michael Koepke, Rasmus Overgaard Jensen, James Bruce Yarnton Haycock Behrendorff, Ryan Edward Hill
  • Patent number: 9732335
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for the screening, identification and/or application of microorganisms of use in imparting beneficial properties to plants. In one embodiment, the method involves subjecting one or more plants to a growth medium in the presence of a set of microorganisms, selecting one or more plant, acquiring one or more microorganisms associated with the selected plant(s) and repeating the process one or more times. The method further involves the step of subjecting the one or more microorganisms to a conditioning and/or directed evolution process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: BIODISCOVERY NEW ZEALAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Susan Jane Turner, Peter John Wigley
  • Patent number: 9732336
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods for the screening, identification, and/or application of one or more microorganisms of use in imparting one or more beneficial properties to one or more plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: BIODISCOVERY NEW ZEALAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Peter Wigley, Caroline George, Susan Turner
  • Publication number: 20170226064
    Abstract: Methods and intermediates for synthesizing triethylenetetramine and salts thereof, as well as novel triethylenetetramine salts and their crystal structure, and triethylenetetramine salts of high purity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: PhilEra New Zealand Limited
    Inventors: Marco Jonas, Irene Vaulont, Antonio Soi, Gunther Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20170209499
    Abstract: This invention provides pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical compositions, including anti-skin cancer compositions, N containing propolis and cyclodextrin, and compositions comprising one or more compounds present in propolis, including compositions comprising one or more compounds present as an inclusion complex with cyclodextrin. Methods of using such compounds and compositions, in particular in the treatment or prevention of skin cancers and skin disorders, and in enhancing skin health, are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: Manuka Health New Zealand Limited
    Inventors: Amanda Jan SUDDES, Owen John CATCHPOLE
  • Patent number: 9701987
    Abstract: A process for producing and controlling pyruvate derived products during the fermentation of a CO containing substrate by an acetogenic carboxydotrophic microorganism has been developed. The process involves increasing the concentration of at least one nutrient selected from the group consisting of vitamin B1, vitamin B5, vitamin B7 and mixtures thereof above the cellular requirement of the microorganism. When the concentration is increased, the production of 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BDO) increases whereas the production of the other metabolites is virtually unchanged. The effect is reversible so that when the concentration is decreased, the production of 2,3-BDO is also decreased. This allows one to control the ratio of ethanol:2,3-BDO to a desired value which can vary from about 4:1 to about 1:2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: LANZATECH NEW ZEALAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Kathleen Frances Smart, Boi San Ly
  • Publication number: 20170128804
    Abstract: A road trailer carrying a basketball goal assembly that includes a basketball backboard and hoop assembly supported by the trailer in a manner to allow it to be stowed inside an enclosure of the trailer and presented for use from the trailer where the basketball backboard and hoop assembly are located outside the footprint of the trailer when viewed in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: GYMLEADER NEW ZEALAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Craig Stephen George BRUCE, Glen Daniel KAVANAGH, Alexander Donovan PURI TEPA, Shirley Evelyn WORTHINGTON
  • Patent number: 9624512
    Abstract: The invention relates to the production of products such as alcohols and acids by microbial fermentation, particularly microbial fermentation of substrates comprising CO. It more particularly relates to methods and systems for improving efficiency of products by microbial fermentation. In particular embodiments, the invention provides a method of optimizing production of desired products including the step of ascertaining the proportion of CO converted to CO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: LANZATECH NEW ZEALAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Sean Dennis Simpson, Joseph Henry Tizard
  • Patent number: 9617566
    Abstract: Processes, as well as associated systems and computer program (software) products, are disclosed for the biological conversion of CO into desired end products such as ethanol. The control methodologies used for these processes can advantageously result in a reduced time required for a batch operation or other initial operating period, prior to achieving a continuous operation, which may be demarcated either by the addition of fresh culture medium at a defined flow rate or by another process initiation target. The control methodologies may alternatively, or in combination, improve a process performance parameter, such as productivity of the desired end product or bacterial growth rate, during this batch operation or other initial operating period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: LANZATECH NEW ZEALAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Christophe Collet, Guy William Waters, Jason Carl Bromley, Justin Yi Yang, Jarod Nathan Wilson
  • Patent number: 9617509
    Abstract: A reactor system is provided for improved fermentation of a gaseous substrate through the introduction of a secondary loop to a forced-circulation loop reactor. The reactor comprises a primary loop through which fermentation broth comprising a gaseous substrate is circulated through a riser segment and a downcomer section by a loop pump. Downstream of the loop pump a portion of fermentation broth is withdrawn from the downcomer section and is directed to the top of the reactor via a secondary loop. Further provided is a method for improving the mass transfer of a gaseous substrate to a fermentation broth in a fermentation vessel comprising a secondary loop. Further provided is a method for reducing foam in the headspace of a fermentation vessel comprising a secondary loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: LANZATECH NEW ZEALAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Xueliang Li, Benjamin James Cossey, Simon Richard Trevethick
  • Patent number: 9606005
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods and apparatus of measuring real time temperature conditions within a reformer. The data is then used for process control optimization, overheat protection, and improved creep damage and fatigue life prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: METHANEX NEW ZEALAND LIMITED
    Inventor: Peter Campbell Tait
  • Patent number: 9556123
    Abstract: Methods and intermediates for synthesizing triethylenetetramine and salts thereof, as well as novel triethylenetetramine salts and their crystal structure, and triethylenetetramine salts of high purity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Philera New Zealand Limited
    Inventors: Marco Jonas, Irene Vaulont, Antonio Soi, Gunther Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9550979
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mutant alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes, microorganisms comprising the mutant alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes, and methods for the production of products by microbial fermentation using the microorganisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Lanza Tech New Zealand Limited
    Inventors: Michael Koepke, Wayne Michael Patrick, Danielle Joan Maddock, Monica Gerth