Patents Assigned to Novozymes Als
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Patent number: 10072380Abstract: The invention relates to a process of detoxifying pretreated lignocellulose-containing material comprising washing the pretreated lignocellulose-containing material in a washing solution and treating the used washing solution to remove an enzyme inhibitor and/or an inhibitor of a fermenting organism before recycling the used washing solution.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignees: Novozymes Als, Cofco LTDInventors: Haiyu Ren, Hong Zhi Huang, Jie Zheng
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Patent number: 8865637Abstract: The present invention relates to variant lysozymes. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variant lysozymes and to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotide.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Novozymes AlsInventor: Leonardo De Maria
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Patent number: 8841091Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides comprising a carbohydrate-binding module amino acid sequence and an alpha-amylase amino acid sequence as well as to the application of such polypeptides.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2012Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignees: Novozymes Als, Novozymec North America Inc.Inventors: Shiro Fukuyama, Tomoko Matsui, Chee Leong Soong, Eric Allain, Anders Vikso Nielsen, Hiroaki Udagawa, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Wenping Wu, Lene Nonboe Andersen
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Patent number: 8143482Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase 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 for producing and using the polypeptides.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2007Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignees: Novozymes, Inc., Novozymes AlsInventors: Søren Flensted Lassen, Paul Harris, Elena Vlasenko, Kristian Bertel Romer Morkeberg Krogh
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Patent number: 8143047Abstract: The invention relates to functional polypeptides secreted from Botryospaeria rhodina CBS 274.96.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Novozymes AlsInventors: Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Lene Lange, Pernille Uldall Bolvig
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Patent number: 8119386Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated proteases of the RP-II type and variants of RP-II proteases exhibiting improved properties in comparison to the parent RP-II protease, DNA constructs and vectors coding for the expression of said proteases and variants, host cells capable of expressing the proteases and variants from the DNA constructs, as well as a method of producing them by cultivating said host cells. The proteases may advantageously be used as constituents in detergent compositions and additives, optionally in combination with other enzymes such as proteases, lipases, cellulases, amylases, peroxidases or oxidases.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2011Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Novozymes AlsInventors: Mads Norregaard-Madsen, Peter Rahbek Ostergaard, Claus Bo Voge Christensen, Soren Flensted Lassen
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Patent number: 7816113Abstract: The invention relates to a genetically engineered variant of a parent starch debranching enzyme, i.e. a pullulanase or an isoamylase, the enzyme variant having an improved thermostability at a pH in the range of 4-6 compared to the parent enzyme and/or an increased activity towards amylopectin and/or glycogen compared to the parent enzyme, to methods for producing such starch debranching enzyme variants with improved thermostability and/or altered substrate specificity, and to a method for converting starch to one or more sugars using at least one such enzyme variant.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2008Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Novozymes AlsInventors: Henrik Bisgård-Frantzen, Allan Svendsen
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Patent number: 7326548Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having glucoamylase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding said polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides. The invention also relates to the composition comprising a glucoamylase of the invention as well as the use such compositions for starch conversion processes, brewing, including processes for producing fermentation products or syrups.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2005Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignees: Novozymes Als, Novezymes Noth America, IncInventors: Hiroaki Udagawa, Sara Landvik, Michiko Ihara, Jiyin Liu, Chee Leong Soong, Eric Allain, Shiro Fukuyama
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Patent number: 7326554Abstract: The present invention relates to phytase variants, their preparation and uses, which phytase variants, when aligned according to FIG. 1, are amended as compared to a model phytase in at least one of a number of positions. Preferred model phytases are basidiomycete and ascomycete phytases, such as Peniophora phytase and Aspergillus phytases. Preferred phytase variants exhibits amended activity characteristics, such as improved specific activity and/or improved thermostability.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2003Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: Novozymes AlsInventors: Allan Svendsen, Soren Flensted Lassen, Dirk Kostrewa, Luis Pasamontes, Martin Lehman, Andrea Tomschy, Adolphus Van Loon, Kurt Vogel, Markus Wyss
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Patent number: 7122365Abstract: The invention relates to a variant of a parent fungal glucoamylase, which exhibits improved thermal stability and/or increased specific activity using saccharide substrates.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2002Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Novozymes AlsInventors: Bjarne Roenfeldt Nielsen, Allan Svendsen, Henrik Pedersen, Jesper Vind, Hanne Vang Hendriksen, Torben Peter Frandsen