Patents Assigned to Novozymes A/S
  • Publication number: 20240084226
    Abstract: The invention provides liquid enzyme compositions comprising a sulfite scavenger or a sulfite radical scavenger, useful in multi-compartment unit dose detergent products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Asbjoern Toftgaard Pedersen, Erik Hellstrand
  • Publication number: 20240082319
    Abstract: Compositions comprising Bacillus pumilis O72NR7 (deposit accession number DSM 32563) are useful for improving myriad performance parameters when fed to animals, including, but not limited to, body weight gain, average daily gain and feed conversion rates. The present disclosure describes animal feed additives and animal feeds comprising Bacillus pumilis O72NR7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Adam Nelson, Erik Eckhardt, Estelle Devillard, Meagan Hale, Emily Zhang, Ethan Chad Baker
  • Publication number: 20240084277
    Abstract: The present invention relates to glucoamylase variants having improved thermostability. 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: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Esben Peter Friis, Leonardo De Maria, Jasper Vind, Thomas A. Poulsen, Allan Svendsen, Steffen Danielsen, Rolf T. Lenhard, Henrik Friis-Madsen, Lars K. Skov
  • Patent number: 11926856
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having D-psicose 3-epimerase 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: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Xinyu Shen, Randall Scott Deinhammer, James Ron Huffman, Kendra Stallings, Tine Hoff, Jesper Salomon, Anne Goldbech Olsen
  • Patent number: 11926852
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising polypeptides having xylanase activity and polypeptides having arabinofuranosidase activity for use in, e.g., animal feed. The present invention further relates to polypeptides having arabinofuranosidase activity, polypeptides having xylanase 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: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Wei Peng, Ninfa Rangel Pedersen, Dan Pettersson, Jens Magnus Eklof, Soren Nymand-Grarup, Lorena G. Palmen, Rune Nygaard Monrad, Nikolaj Spodsberg, Mary Ann Stringer, Charlotte Blom, Lars Kiemer, Kristian Bertel Romer M. Krogh, Jesper Salomon
  • Publication number: 20240076648
    Abstract: The invention provides enzyme particles comprising an immobilized 1,3 specific lipase and a copolymer of styrene and divinylbenzene. The particles are suitable for enzymatic interesterification of triglycerides, and subsequent separation of the enzyme and triglycerides by filtration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventor: Pavle Andric
  • Publication number: 20240075077
    Abstract: Bacillus strains useful for preventing and/or controlling Clostridium perfringens infections and necrotic enteritis in monogastric animals, such as swine and poultry, and for improving the overall health, feed conversion rates and body weight gain of such animals, as well as compositions comprising the Bacillus strains and various methods of using the Bacillus strains in animal feed and animal feed additives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Derrick Lewis, Marianne Thorup Cohn, Adam Nelson, Preben Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20240076579
    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: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: 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: 20240067943
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides, nucleotides encoding the polypeptide, as well as methods of producing the polypeptides. The present invention also relates to detergent composition comprising polypeptides, a laundering method and the use of polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Morten Gjermansen, Klaus Gori, Henrik Marcus Geertz-Hansen, Jesper Salomon, Thomas Holberg Blicher, Nikolaj Spodsberg
  • Publication number: 20240060061
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptide variants having DNase activity, as well as detergent compositions comprising the variants, use of the variants for cleaning, and methods for obtaining the variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Marco Malten, Annette Helle Johansen, Lars Henrik Oestergaard, Lars Lehmann Hylling Christensen, Christian Berg Oehlenschlaeger
  • Publication number: 20240057627
    Abstract: The present invention relates to preparation of a plant-based fermented dairy alternative where the plant-based substrate is treated with an endopeptidase, preferably a specific endopeptidase selected from trypsin-like endopeptidase, lysine-specific endopeptidase or glutamyl-specific endo-peptidase. Further preferred is the combination with a phospholipase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Jens Magnus Eklof, Lykke Christina Stounbjerg, Xiaowei Qi
  • Publication number: 20240060060
    Abstract: The present invention related to lipase variants having lipase activity and having between 60% to less than 100% sequence identity to a parent lipase or a fragment thereof, wherein the variant comprises one or more substitutions selected from H198A/D/E/F/G/I/L/N/Q/S/T/V/Y, F7H/K/R, F51A/I/L/V/Y, T143A/G/SN, A150G/V, N200H/K/Q/R, I202G/L/V, S224C/F/H/I/L/P/Y, L227D/E/K/R, V228P, P229H/K/R, V230H/K/L/R, I255A/G/N/P/S/T/V/Y, P256A/K/N/Q/R/S/T/W, A257F/H/I/L/V/Y, L259F/Y, and W260D/E/F/H/I/L/N/Q/S/T/Y using SEQ ID NO:10 for position numbering or selected from H198A/D/E/F/G/I/L/N/Q/S/T/V/Y, F7H/K/R, F51A/I/L/V/Y, T143A/G/S/V, A150G/V, N200H/K/Q/R, I202G/L/V, S224C/F/H/I/L/P/Y, L227D/E/K/R, V228P, P229H/K/R, V230H/K/L/R, I255A/G/N/P/S/T/V/Y, T256A/K/N/Q/R/S/P/W, A257F/H/I/LN/Y, L259F/Y, and W260D/E/F/H/I/L/N/Q/S/T/Y using SEQ ID NO:2 for position numbering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Carsten Hoerslev Hansen, Yitong Liu, Steffen Kayser, Vibeke Skovgaard Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20240052000
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mutated bacterial host cells, said host cells producing a polypeptide of interest and having at least one disrupted flagellum gene, and to nucleic acid constructs and vectors encoding at least one flagellum polypeptide with reduced or eliminated activity as well as to methods of producing one or more polypeptide of interest in said host cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicants: Novozymes A/S, University of Copenhagen
    Inventors: Thomas Krogh Kallehauge, Annaleigh Ohrt Fehler, Adrian Sven Geissler, Jan Gorodkin, Jeppe Vinther
  • Publication number: 20240052329
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides, nucleotides encoding the polypeptide, as well as methods of producing the polypeptides. The present invention also relates to detergent composition comprising polypeptides, a laundering method and the use of polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Morten Gjermansen, Klaus Gori, Henrik Marcus Geertz-Hansen, Jesper Salomon, Thomas Holberg Blicher, Nikolaj Spodsberg, Mary Ann Stringer
  • Patent number: 11896024
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions, particularly liquid compositions, comprising enzymes, methods of making the compositions, and uses of the same for making, e.g., dairy products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventor: Jeppe Wegener Tams
  • Patent number: 11896033
    Abstract: Provided are animal feed or animal feed additives comprising one or more polypeptides having lysozyme activity. Provided are polypeptides having lysozyme activity, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Mikkel Klausen, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Soeren Nymand-Grarup, Peter Bjarke Olsen, Marianne Thorup Cohn, Robert Piotr Olinski, Marc Dominique Morant, Ming Li, Ye Liu, Lars Kobbeeroee Skov, Dominique Aubert Skovlund, Han Bucong
  • Patent number: 11896034
    Abstract: The present invention relates animal feed or animal feed additives comprising one or more polypeptides having lysozyme activity. The invention also relates to polypeptides having lysozyme activity, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Mikkel Klausen, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Lars Kobberoee Skov, Soeren Nymand-Grarup, Marianne Thorup Cohn, Peter Bjarke Olsen, Ming Li, Ye Liu
  • Patent number: 11891591
    Abstract: The present invention relates to lipase variants and compositions comprising (i) at least one surfactant and (ii) at least one lipase variant of the invention. Furthermore, the present invention relates to methods of using the compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Kim Borch, Carsten Hørslev Hansen, Jesper Vind, Marco Malten, Svend Gunnar Kaasgaard
  • Patent number: 11889847
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a coffee extract which comprises use of an enzyme having ?-1,3-galactanase activity and to a coffee extract which comprises at least 20% based on the total weight of soluble coffee solids of total galactose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Nikolaj Spodsberg, Kristian Bertel Roemer M Krogh, Rune Nygaard Monrad, Jens Ekloef, Louise Rasmussen, Gitte Budolfsen Lynglev, Laure Coulomb
  • Patent number: 11891645
    Abstract: The present invention relates to serine protease variants, having improved properties compared to the parent protease, in particular variants of a serine protease derived from a strain of Meripilus giganteus belonging to the S53 family. The varinats according to the invention have in particular increased stability, e.g., increased thermo-stability, increased specific activity, and/or increased expression levels, compared to the parent protease. 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: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Dorte M. K. Klitgaard, Roland Alexander Pache, Martin Gudman, Anders G. Sandström