Patents Assigned to Novozymes A/S
  • PREVENTING ADHESION OF BACTERIA
    Publication number: 20220333040
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a detergent composition comprising one or more anionic surfactants; an enzyme selected from the group consisting of: a protease, a lipase, a cutinase, an amylase, a carbohydrase, a cellulase, a pectinase, a mannanase, an arabinase, a galactanase, a xylanase, and an oxidase; and a deoxyribonuclease (DNase).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Klaus Gori, Lilian Eva Tang Baltsen, Marie Allesen-Holm
  • Cleaning Compositions and Uses Thereof
    Publication number: 20220333041
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions such as cleaning compositions comprising a mix of enzymes. The invention further relates, use of compositions comprising such enzymes in cleaning processes and/or for deep cleaning of organic soiling, methods for removal or reduction of components of organic matter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Christian Berg OEHLENSCHLAEGER, Dorotea Raventos SEGURA, Jesper SALOMON, Rebecca Munk VEJBORG
  • Polypeptides having xylanase activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 11470859
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 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. The invention also relates to compositions comprising the polypeptides of the invention and the use of the polypeptides of the invention to release xylose and in animal feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Charlotte Blom, Ninfa Rangel Pedersen, Dan Pettersson, Jens Magnus Ekloef, Kristian Bertel Roemer Krogh, Martin Simon Borchert, Dorotea Raventos Segura, Nele Ilmberger, Wolfgang Streit, Jesper Salomon
  • subspecies
    Patent number: 11473052
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel subspecies of Bacillus. The novel subspecies can improve health and performance of production animals. In one embodiment the Bacillus subtilis subspecies has activity against Clostridium perfringens and/or E. coli. The invention further relates to compositions comprising one or more strains of the Bacillus subtilis subspecies and to use of the strain(s) of the Bacillus subtilis subspecies in an animal feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Derrick Lewis, Marianne Thorup Cohn, Adam Nelson, Preben Nielsen, Ravi Kumar
  • Animal feed additives and compositions comprising an S8 serine protease
    Patent number: 11473076
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having protease activity, animal feed additives comprising said polypeptides improving the nutritional value of an animal feed by adding the protease, invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventor: Tine Hoff
  • Yeast for ethanol production
    Patent number: 11473109
    Abstract: Described herein are Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains MBG5038 and MBG5012 deposited under the Budapest Treaty and having accession Nos. NRRL Y67549 and NRRL Y67700, respectively, or a derivatives of strains NRRL Y67549 or Y67700 which exhibit one or more properties or defining characteristics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains MBG5038 or MBG5012. Also described are compositions comprising the Saccharomyces yeast and naturally occurring and/or non-naturally occurring components, as well as are processes for producing ethanol from starch-containing material using the strains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignees: Novozymes A/S, Microbiogen Pty. Ltd.
    Inventors: Paul Victor Attfield, Philip John Livingstone Bell, Hamid Rismani Yazdi, Xin Li, Robert Lyle Osborne, Alan Jay House
  • DETERGENT COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20220325204
    Abstract: The present invention relates to detergent compositions comprising a polypeptide having alpha-amylases. Furthermore, the present invention relates to methods of using the detergent compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventor: Astrid Benie
  • Detergent Composition
    Publication number: 20220315866
    Abstract: The present invention relates to detergent compositions comprising alpha amylase mixtures. The compositions of the invention are suitable as e.g. cleaning or detergent compositions, such as laundry detergent compositions and dish wash compositions, including automatic dish wash compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Morten Foverskov, Mette Bruni Let
  • Polypeptides having D-Psicose 3 Epimerase Activity and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20220315912
    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: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Xinyu Shen, Randall Scott Deinhammer, James Ron Huffman, Kendra Stallings, Tine Hoff, Jesper Salomon, Anne Goldbech Olsen
  • FUSION PROTEINS FOR IMPROVED ENZYME EXPRESSION
    Publication number: 20220307036
    Abstract: Described herein are recombinant host organisms expressing a fusion protein with a foreign signal linked to the N-terminus of a mature polypeptide, such as an alpha-amylase, protease, beta-glucosidase or glucoamylase. Also described are processes for producing a fermentation product, such as ethanol, from starch or cellulosic-containing material with the recombinant host organisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Monica Tassone, Judilee Osborn
  • Variants and compositions comprising variants with high stability in presence of a chelating agent
    Patent number: 11453868
    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: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    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
  • Processes For Solubilizing Municipal Solid Waste With Enzyme Compositions Comprising Protease And Enzyme Compositions Thereof
    Publication number: 20220297171
    Abstract: A processes for solubilization or hydrolysis of a municipal solid waste with an Enzyme composition, comprising: (i) a cellulolytic enzyme composition, and (ii) a protease selected from the group consisting of: (a) a protease having at least 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95% or 100% identity to amino acids 1 to 177 of SEQ ID NO: 1 or a fragment thereof having protease activity; (b) a protease having at least 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95% or 100% identity to SEQ ID NO: 5; (c) a protease having at least 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95% or 100% identity to SEQ ID NO: 32 or a variant thereof; (d) a protease having at least 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95% or 100% identity to SEQ ID NO: 33; and (e) a protease having at least 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95% or 100% identity to amino acids 199 to 564 of SEQ ID NO: 36.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Hongzhi Huang, Yun Wang, Wanghui Xu
  • COUNTER-SELECTION BY INHIBITION OF CONDITIONALLY ESSENTIAL GENES
    Publication number: 20220298517
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for counter-selection by inhibition of conditionally essential genes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Steen Troels Joergensen, Michael Dolberg Rasmussen
  • Serine protease variants and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 11447763
    Abstract: The present invention relates to protease variants, having improved properties compared to the parent protease, in particular variants of a serine protease belonging to family 53 derived from a strain of Meripilus giganteus. The variants according to the invention have in particular increased thermo-stability, e.g., increased residual activity after 30 min at a temperature in the range from 55 to 60° C. and/or increased thermal denaturation temperature, compared to the parent Meripilus giganteus 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: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Keiichi Ayabe, Tomoko Matsui, Aki Tomiki, Yuma Kurakata, Esben P. Friis, Jens E. Nielsen, Roland Alexander Pache
  • Polypeptide variants
    Patent number: 11447723
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptide variants and methods for obtaining 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: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Lars Beier, Lars Henrik Oestergaard, Annette Helle Johansen, Klaus Gori, Thomas Holberg Blicher, Gernot Abel, Steen Krogsgaard, Jens E. Nielsen, Lars Giger
  • DNase variants
    Patent number: 11441136
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptide variants and methods for obtaining 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: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Lars Henrik Oestergaard, Lars Giger, Annette Helle Johansen, Lars Beier, Jurgen Carsten Franz Knotzel, Gernot J. Abel, Klaus Gori
  • Methods of reducing odor
    Patent number: 11441134
    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/S/V, A150G/V, N200H/K/Q/R, I202G/LN, 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/L/V/Y, L259F/Y, and W260D/E/F/H/I/L/N/Q/S/T/Y using SEQ ID NO:2 for position numbering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Carsten Hoerslev Hansen, Yitong Liu, Steffen Kayser, Vibeke Skovgaard Nielsen
  • ALPHA-AMYLASE VARIANTS AND POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING SAME
    Publication number: 20220282188
    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 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Carsten ANDERSEN, Vivek SRIVASTAVA, Padmavathi BALUMURI, Partha Pratim CHAKRABARTI, Sohel DALAL
  • ENZYME BLENDS AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING A HIGH PROTEIN FEED INGREDIENT FROM A WHOLE STILLAGE BYPRODUCT
    Publication number: 20220279818
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a high protein feed ingredient from a whole stillage byproduct produced in a starch-containing grain dry milling process for producing a fermentation product, as well as enzyme blends used in the processes for partitioning a greater amount of protein from the whole stillage byproduct into the high protein fraction, rather than being retained in the wet cake, to produce a high protein feed ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Kurt Creamer, Kalpesh Parekh, James Lavigne
  • Cleaning Compositions and Uses Thereof
    Publication number: 20220282185
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions such as cleaning compositions comprising a mix of enzymes. The invention further relates, use of compositions comprising such enzymes in cleaning processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventor: Klaus Gori