Patents Assigned to Novozymes A/S
  • Polypeptides
    Patent number: 11613741
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Morten Gjermansen, Klaus Gori, Henrik Marcus Geertz-Hansen, Jesper Salomon, Thomas Holberg Blicher, Nikolaj Spodsberg
  • Polypeptides
    Publication number: 20230092964
    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 dompositions comprising polypeptides, a laundering method and the use of polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Morten Gjermansen, Klaus Gori, Henrik Marcus Geertz-Hansen, Jesper Salomon, Mary Ann Stringer, Thomas Holberg Blicher, Nikolaj Spodsberg
  • SOLID STABILIZED LACCASE COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20230088815
    Abstract: The invention provides an enzyme granule comprising a mixture of a laccase and a buffer in an amount capable of maintaining an alkaline pH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Niels-Viktor Nielsen, Ole Simonsen, Birgitte Andersen
  • Alpha-amylase variants and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 11603522
    Abstract: The present invention relates to variants of a parent alpha-amylase. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants and to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides, and methods of using the variant enzymes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignees: NOVOZYMES A/S, NOVOZYMES NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Carsten Andersen, Randall Deinhammer, Thomas Agersten Poulsen, Miguel Duarte Toscano, Peter Kamp Hansen, Henrik Friis-Madsen, Anders Viksoe-Nielsen, Signe Eskildsen Larsen, Lars L. H. Christensen
  • Subtilase variants and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 11591585
    Abstract: The present invention relates to subtilase variants suitable for use in, e.g., cleaning or detergent compositions, such as laundry detergent compositions and dish wash compositions, including automatic dish wash compositions. The present invention also relates to isolated DNA sequences encoding the variants, expression vectors, host cells, and methods for producing and using the variants of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Miguel Duarte Guilherme Pereira Toscano, Leonardo De Maria
  • Subtilase variants and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 11591586
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel subtilase variants exhibiting increased stability and preferably on par or improved wash performance. The variants of the invention are suitable for use in e.g. cleaning or detergent compositions, such as laundry detergent compositions and dish wash compositions, including automatic dish wash compositions. The present invention also relates to isolated DNA sequences encoding the variants, expression vectors, host cells, and methods for producing and using the variants of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Frank Winther Rasmussen, Peter Kamp Hansen, Lars Lehman Hylling Christensen
  • Processes for producing a fermentation product
    Patent number: 11584783
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having trehalase activity, particularly derived from Talaromyces. 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 for the production of ethanol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Marc Dominique Morant, Tomoko Matsui, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Shiro Fukuyama, Noriko Tsutsumi, Zhengfang Kang
  • SPORE-BASED PROBIOTIC COMPOSITION FOR REDUCTION OF DIETARY ENDOTOXEMIA AND RELATED METHODS
    Publication number: 20230049876
    Abstract: A method of treating metabolic endotoxemia comprising identifying a subject having post-prandial dietary endotoxemia and administering an effective amount of a spore-based probiotic. While any spore-based probiotic may be used, the probiotic supplement may comprise Bacillus indicus (HU36), Bacillus subtilis (HU58), Bacillus coagulans, Bacillus licheniformis, and Bacillus clausii. One or more of a level of blood endotoxin, triglyceride, post-prandial insulin, post-prandial ghrelin level, MCP-1, GM-CSF, IL-12p70, IL-13, IL-1beta, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-7, IL-8, and TNF-? is observed as being lower after spore-based probiotic supplementation when compared to placebo. At least one of post-prandial leptin and IL-10 is observed as being higher after spore-based probiotic supplementation when compared to placebo.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Kiran Krishnan, Dale Kriz, Thomas Bayne
  • Sterile filtered lactase preparation comprising salt with monovalent cation
    Patent number: 11576393
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sterile-filtered liquid lactase preparation and to a method of sterile filtering a liquid lactase preparation. At least 0.01% w/w of at least one salt having a monovalent cation is added in order to improve filterability. The system may further comprise a polyol stabilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Cedric Hobel, Karen Jensen
  • PROCESS OF EXTRACTING OIL FROM THIN STILLAGE
    Publication number: 20230044835
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes of recovering oil after liquefaction and/or from thin stillage and/or syrup/evaporated centrate from a fermentation product production process by adding a thermostable protease to the whole stillage, thin stillage and/or syrup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Nathaniel Kreel, Joseph Mark Jump
  • USE OF CELLULASE FOR IMPROVEMENT OF SUSTAINABILITY OF DETERGENTS
    Publication number: 20230033580
    Abstract: Detergent compositions with improved sustainability where the level of antiredepostion polymer is reduced by use of cellulase, optionally in combination with a DNase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Yue Cai, Lise Munch Mikkelsen, Henrik Lund
  • Stabilized cellulase variants
    Patent number: 11566239
    Abstract: Disclosed is variants of a cellulase having improved stability in the presence of a protease, and the use of such variants in laundry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Svend Gunnar Kaasgaard, Frank Winther Rasmussen, Roland Alexander Pache, Lars Anderson, Mette Louise Dissing Overgaard, Thomas Agersten Poulsen, Dorte Marie Koefoed Klitgaard, Christian Isak Joergensen, Lars Giger
  • Processes for producing ethanol
    Patent number: 11566266
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Randy Deinhammer, Suzanne Clark, Mauricio Quiros, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee Leong Soong, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi
  • PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING FERMENTATION PRODUCTS
    Publication number: 20230023446
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable xylanase that is resistance to inhibition by metal ions in the liquefying starch-containing material is present and/or added during liquefaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Chee-Leong Soong, Yuma Kurakata, Brian Frederick Ohman
  • Cleaning Compositions comprising Enzymes
    Publication number: 20230028804
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions, methods and use of a mixture of enzymes having DNase activity and an enzyme having hexosaminidase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Rebecca Munk Vejborg, Klaus Gori, Lilian Eva Tang Baltsen
  • XYLANASE VARIANTS AND POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING SAME
    Publication number: 20230017381
    Abstract: The present invention relates to xylanase variants of a parent xylanase having increased thermostability when compared to the parent xylanase. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants, nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides, and method of producing the variants of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Rakhi Saikia, Amol Vaijanathappa Shivange, Sohel Dalal, Kenneth Jensen, Lars Olsen, Kristian Bertel Romer M. Krogh, Madelyn Mallison Shoup, Bernardo Vidal, Jr.
  • POLYPEPTIDES HAVING BETA-GLUCANASE ACTIVITY AND POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING SAME
    Publication number: 20230012672
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having beta-glucanase activity, catalytic domains, carbohydrate binding modules and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding modules. 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, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding modules. The present invention further relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing or cellulosic-containing material, as well as an enzyme blend or composition, or a recombinant host cell or fermenting organism suitable for use in processes of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Hong Zhi Huang, Jiyin Liu, Hui Xu, Elena Vlasenko, Brett McBrayer, Ye Liu, Lan Tang, James Ron Huffman, Nikolaj Spodsberg
  • Polypeptides having beta-glucanase activity, polynucleotides encoding same and uses thereof in cleaning and detergent compositions
    Patent number: 11549104
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having beta-glucanase activity, catalytic domains, beta-glucan binding domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or beta-glucan binding 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, catalytic domains or beta-glucan binding domains. The invention further relates to cleaning or detergent compositions comprising polypeptides exhibiting beta-glucanase activity and one or more amylases and/or one or more proteases and uses thereof in cleaning or detergent applications and processes such as cleaning hard-surfaces, dish wash and laundering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Iben Damager, Morten Gjermansen, Carsten Andersen, Thomas Weber, Inga Kerstin Vockenroth, Clarissa Maisey, Astrid Spitz, Lisa-Marie Schütz, Claudia Ottow, Daniela Herbst, Claudia Lindner
  • VARIANTS AND COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING VARIANTS WITH HIGH STABILITY IN PRESENCE OF A CHELATING AGENT
    Publication number: 20230002748
    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: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: 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
  • RECOMBINANT YEAST STRAINS FOR PENTOSE FERMENTATION
    Publication number: 20230002751
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for recovering a desired fermentation product from a fermentation broth where the desired product has precipitated during the fermentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Simon Glanville, Peter Frode Pind, Sune Jakobsen, Lars Johansen, Carsten Jacobsen, Kim Bruno Andersen, Søren Prip Beier, Jens-Ulrik Rype