Patents Assigned to Novozymes A/A
  • Patent number: 10260024
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising protease variants suitable for use in cleaning or detergent compositions, such as laundry detergent compositions and dish wash compositions, including automatic dish wash compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Peter Kamp Hansen, Esben Peter Friis, Torben Vedel Borchert, Lars Lehmann Hylling Christensen, Jens Erik Nielsen, Maria Berggaard Silow
  • Publication number: 20190106689
    Abstract: The present invention relates to xylanase variants, polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; compositions comprising the xylanase variants and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Steffen Danielsen, Peter Kamp Hansen, Frank Winther Rasmussen, Roland Alexander Pache
  • Publication number: 20190106690
    Abstract: Provided are cellulase variants and polynucleotides encoding the variants. And provided are nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides. Furthermore provided are methods of using the variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Weijian Lai, Wei Peng, Ye Liu, Ming Li
  • Publication number: 20190106397
    Abstract: The invention relates to enzymatic methods for epoxidation of a non-cyclic aliphatic alkene, or a terpene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Henrik Lund, Lisbeth Kalum, Martin Hofrichter, Sebastian Peter
  • Patent number: 10253342
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having catalase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Novozymes Inc.
    Inventors: Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Yu Zhang, Lan Tang
  • Patent number: 10246693
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Suchindra Maiyuran, Randall Kramer, Paul Harris
  • Patent number: 10246692
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having lipase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Robert Piotr Olinski, Preben Nielsen, Kim Borch, Anna Verena Reiser, Carsten Hoerslev Hansen, Lone Baunsgaard
  • Patent number: 10246691
    Abstract: The present invention relates to variants of GH61 polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity, wherein the variants comprise a substitution at one or more positions corresponding to positions 90, 131, 134, and 141 of the full-length polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2, and have cellulolytic enhancing activity. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Sweeney, Mark Wogulis
  • Publication number: 20190093143
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mutants of a parent Trichoderma strain, comprising a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide and one or more (several) genes selected from the group consisting of a first subtilisin-like serine protease gene, a first aspartic protease gene, a trypsin-like serine protease gene, a second subtilisin-like serine protease gene, and a second aspartic protease gene, wherein the one or more (several) genes are modified rendering the mutant strain deficient in the production of one or more (several) enzymes selected from the group consisting of a first subtilisin-like serine protease, a first aspartic protease, a trypsin-like serine protease, a second subtilisin-like serine protease, and a second aspartic protease, respectively, compared to the parent Trichoderma strain when cultivated under identical conditions. The present invention also relates to methods of producing a polypeptide in such mutants and methods for producing such mutants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Suchindra Maiyuran, Abigail Jang, Kimberly Brown, Sandra Merino, Jeffrey Shasky, Eric Abbate
  • Publication number: 20190093055
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for laundering a textile, the use of a polypeptide having DNase activity and a detergent composition comprising a polypeptide having deoxyribonuclease (DNase) activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventor: Klaus Gori
  • Publication number: 20190093052
    Abstract: The present invention relates to protease variants and methods for obtaining protease variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Miguel Duarte Guilherme Pereira Toscano, Esben Peter Friis, Bena-Marie Lue
  • Publication number: 20190093087
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having glucuronyl esterase activity, catalytic domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides or catalytic domains. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides or catalytic domains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Johan Börjesson, Anders Viksoe-Nielsen, Nikolaj Spodsberg, Kristian Krogh
  • Publication number: 20190091269
    Abstract: The present invention relates to Bacillus strains which improves health and performance of production animals. The invention further relates to compositions comprising the Bacillus strains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Derrick Lewis, Marianne Thorup Cohn, Adam Nelson, Preben Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20190093094
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for obtaining positive transformants of a filamentous fungal host cell, comprising: transforming a tandem construct into a population of cells of the filamentous fungal host a tandem construct and isolating a transformant of the filamentous fungal host cell comprising the tandem construct. The present invention also relates to such tandem constructs, filamentous fungal host cells comprising such tandem constructs, and methods of producing multiple recombinant proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventor: Donna Moyer
  • Patent number: 10240135
    Abstract: The present invention relates to variants of an alpha-amylase having improved stability to chelating agents relative to its parent enzyme, compositions comprising the variants, nucleic acids encoding the variants, methods of producing the variants, and methods for using the variants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Allan Svendsen, Annette Helle Johansen, Mads Bjoernvad, Frank W. Rasmussen, Michael Skjoet, Signe Eskildsen Larsen, Jens Oebro, Svend Kaasgaard, Lars Beier
  • Patent number: 10239798
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods of enhancing plant growth, comprising treating seed at least one month prior to planting with an effective amount of a plant signal molecule, wherein upon harvesting the plant exhibits at least one of increased plant yield measured in terms of bushels/acre, increased root number, increased root length, increased root mass, increased root volume and increased leaf area, compared to plants harvested from untreated seed, or compared to plants harvested from seed treated with the signal molecule just prior to or within a week or less of planting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES BIOAG A/S
    Inventors: R. Stewart Smith, Ahsan Habib, John Kosanke
  • Publication number: 20190085306
    Abstract: The present invention relates to lipase variants and methods of obtaining them. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Luise Erlandsen, Carsten Hoerslev Hansen, Jesper Vind, Allan Svendsen, Carsten Peter Sonksen
  • Publication number: 20190085309
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cellobiohydrolase variants, polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of producing and using the variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Mark Wogulis, Leslie Demars, Aubrey Jones, Hanshu Ding, David Osborn
  • Publication number: 20190085365
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for degrading or converting a cellulosic material, comprising: treating the cellulosic material with an enzyme composition in the presence of a polypeptide having catalase activity; and enzyme compositions used for degrading or converting a cellulosic material comprising one or more (e.g., several) enzymes having cellulolytic and/or hemicellulolytic activity and a polypeptide having catalase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Hongzhi Huang, Haiyu Ren
  • Publication number: 20190085268
    Abstract: The present invention relates to alpha-amylase variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Carsten Andersen, Chakshusmathi Ghadiyaram, Rajendra Kulothungan Sainathan, Padmavathi Balumuri, Padma Venkatachalam Iyer, Iben Damager, Astrid Munch, Sohel Dalal