Patents Assigned to Novozymes BioAg A/S
  • Patent number: 12252688
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides inoculant compositions and methods for enhancing the survival and/or stability of microbial cells and/or spores in an inoculant composition. In some embodiments, inoculant compositions of the present disclosure comprise microbial cells and/or spores in a carrier comprising one or more paraffin oils and/or waxes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES BIOAG A/S
    Inventors: Dan Clary, Ben Doughan
  • Patent number: 12232494
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides aqueous solutions comprising one or more solubilized LCOs, as well as methods of deagglomerating, emulsifying and solubilizing LCOs in aqueous solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES BIOAG A/S
    Inventor: Kenneth Kellar
  • Publication number: 20250034513
    Abstract: Stable inoculant compositions and methods for enhancing the survival and/or stability of microbial cells and/or spores in inoculant compositions. In some embodiments. inoculant compositions of the present disclosure comprise microbial cells and/or spores in a carrier comprising one or more paraffin oils and/or waxes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES BIOAG A/S
    Inventors: Dan CLARY, Ben DOUGHAN
  • Patent number: 12185720
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods of enhancing plant growth, comprising treating plant seed or the plant that germinates from the seed with an effective amount of at least one chitooligosaccharide, 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 untreated plants or plants harvested from untreated seed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES BIOAG A/S
    Inventors: R. Stewart Smith, Ahsan Habib
  • Patent number: 12173167
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides stable inoculant compositions and methods for enhancing the survival and/or stability of microorganisms in an inoculant composition. In some embodiments, the microorganisms in an inoculant compositions are stabilized by the presence of one or more maltodextrins having a dextrose equivalent value of about 15 to about 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES BIOAG A/S
    Inventors: Kenneth Edmund Kellar, Yaowei Kang, Claire Pelligra, Emily Barnett, Caitlin Burklew, Anna Wysinski, Jarrod E. Leland, Ben Doughan, Michael Harrison Fethe, Ashley Delanie Trahan, David Greenshields, Kristi Woods
  • Publication number: 20240365791
    Abstract: A method of controlling or preventing pathogenic damage and/or pest damage in a plant propagation material, a plant, part of a plant and/or plant organ, comprising applying on the plant, part of the plant, plant organ, plant propagation material or a surrounding area thereof a phytoprotective agent comprising an enzyme and a fungicide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES BIOAG A/S
    Inventors: Brian R. SCOTT, John William RICE, Jarrod LELAND, Dave GREENSHIELDS, Sharon INCH
  • Publication number: 20240292838
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for improving one or more aspects of plant growth using synergistically effective amounts of one or more lipo-chitooligosaccharides and one or more agriculturally beneficial microorganisms, such as Streptomyces lydicus WYEC 108, Trichoderma virens GI-3 and Bacillus amyloliquefaciens SB3778.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Novozymes BIOAG A/S
    Inventors: Ahsan HABIB, Kristi WOODS, Michael FRODYMA, Shawn SEMONES
  • Patent number: 12077746
    Abstract: [A]queous inoculant compositions comprising microbial spores and methods for enhancing the survival and/or stability of microbial spores in an inoculant composition. In some embodiments, the aqueous inoculant compositions comprise microbial spores, one or more dispersants, one or more protectants, one or more aqueous additives in a non-aqueous liquid carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: NOVOZYMES BIOAG A/S, MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC.
    Inventors: Dave Greenshields, Kristi Woods, Shaun Raj Selness, Hui Han
  • Patent number: 12075772
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are combinations of Yersinia entomophaga and/or Yersinia nurmii and/or toxins therefrom, with one or more of a variety of substances, including animal repellents, acaricides, antimicrobials, avicides, bactericides, biostimulants, disinfectants and/or sanitizers, fungicides, gastropodicides, herbicides, insecticides, insect growth regulators, insect repellents, miticides, molluscicides, nematicides, plant signal molecules, plant nutrients, plant fertilizers, predacides, piscicides, rodenticides, termiticides, viricides, and the like. The combinations may have additive effects or unexpected effects on pests, insects being one example, and/or on plant growth and/or plant yield. Also disclosed are methods for using the disclosed combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Novozymes BIOAG A/S
    Inventors: Christopher Hahne, Jarrod Leland, Calum Russell
  • Patent number: 12070038
    Abstract: A method of controlling or preventing pathogenic damage and/or pest damage in a plant propagation material, a plant, part of a plant and/or plant organ, comprising applying on the plant, part of the plant, plant organ, plant propagation material or a surrounding area thereof a phytoprotective agent comprising an enzyme and a fungicide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES BIOAG A/S
    Inventors: Brian R. Scott, John William Rice, Jarrod Leland, Dave Greenshields, Sharon Inch
  • Publication number: 20240276987
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for improving the rainfastness of proteins, such as enzymes and cell-signaling peptides, on plants and other surfaces that may be susceptible to infestation and/or infection by bacteria, fungi, etc. Particularly useful are rain fasteners selected from the group consisting of organo-modified siloxanes, such as polyether trisiloxanes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicants: NOVOZYMES A/S, NOVOZYMES BIOAG A/S
    Inventors: Callum Russell, Asbjoern Toftgaard Pedersen, Kenneth Edmund Kellar, Alexander Findelsen, Kate Sarah Brandon Sutton, Svend Gunna Kaasgaard, Ines Marques Nunes, Gregory Stephen Maloney, Casey Ruark-Seward, Mary Ann Stringer, Jason Quinlan, Sharon Inch
  • Publication number: 20240254432
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides aqueous inoculant compositions and methods for enhancing the survival and/or stability of microbial spores in an inoculant composition. In some embodiments, aqueous inoculant compositions of the present disclosure comprise microbial spores, one or more dispersants, one or more protectants, one or more aqueous additives and a non-aqueous liquid carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicants: Novozymes BIOAG A/S, Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Dave GREENSHIELDS, Kristi WOODS, Shaun Raj SELNESS, Hui HAN
  • Patent number: 11999666
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods of enhancing plant growth, comprising a) treating plant seed with an effective amount of at least one phosphate solubilizing microorganism that may include a strain of the fungus Penicillium, and b) treating the seed or plant that germinates from the seed with an effective amount of at least one lipo chitooligosaccharide (LCO) and/or at least one chitoogliosaccharide (CO), 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 untreated plants or plants harvested from untreated seed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Novozymes BioAg A/S
    Inventors: Michael Frodyma, Shawn Semones, R. Stewart Smith, Yaowei Kang
  • Publication number: 20240057612
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are combinations of Yersinia entomophaga and/or Yersinia nurmii and/or toxins therefrom, with one or more of a variety of substances, including animal repellents, acaricides, antimicrobials, avicides, bactericides, biostimulants, disinfectants and/or sanitizers, fungicides, gastropodicides, herbicides, insecticides, insect growth regulators, insect repellents, miticides, molluscicides, nematicides, plant signal molecules, plant nutrients, plant fertilizers, predacides, piscicides, rodenticides, termiticides, viricides, and the like. The combinations may have additive effects or unexpected effects on pests, insects being one example, and/or on plant growth and/or plant yield. Also disclosed are methods for using the disclosed combinations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Novozymes BIOAG A/S
    Inventors: Christopher Hahne, Jarrod Leland, Calum Russell
  • Publication number: 20240032537
    Abstract: Phytoprotective compositions comprising one or more polypeptides having proteolytic activity in an agriculturally acceptable carrier, as well as methods of preparing such compositions and methods of using such compositions for preventing and/or treating phytopathogenic pests to reduce damage in plant propagation materials, plants and plant parts and increase crop yields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES BIOAG A/S
    Inventors: Sharon Inch, Tine Hoff, Michael Frodyma, Michelle Maranta, Barbara Cherry
  • Patent number: 11812747
    Abstract: A method of controlling or preventing pathogenic damage and/or pest damage in a plant propagation material, a plant, part of a plant and/or plant organ, comprising applying on the plant, part of the plant, plant organ, plant propagation material or a surrounding area thereof a phytoprotective agent comprising a protease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES BIOAG A/S
    Inventors: Sharon Inch, Tine Hoff, Michael Frodyma, Michelle Maranta, Barbara Cherry
  • Patent number: 11800868
    Abstract: The use of a one or more Isoflavonoid compound Signals which may be with an agriculturally acceptable carrier, applied prior to planting, up to 365 days or more, either directly to the seed or transplant of a non-legume crop or a legume crop, or applied to the soil that will be planted either to a non-legume crop or a legume crop, for the purpose of increasing yield and/or improving seed germination and/or improving earlier seed emergence and/or improving nodulation and/or increasing crop stand density and/or improving plant vigour and/or improving plant growth, and/or increasing biomass, and/or earlier fruiting, all including in circumstances of seedling and plant transplanting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Novozymes Bioag A/S
    Inventors: John McIver, Chunquan Chen, Birgit Carolyn Schultz, Hannah McIver
  • Patent number: 11716994
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are combinations of Yersinia entomophaga and/or Yersinia nurmii and/or toxins therefrom, with one or more of a variety of substances, including animal repellents, acaracides, antimicrobials, avicides, bactericides, biostimulants, disinfectants and/or sanitizers, fungicides, gastropodicides, herbicides, insecticides, insect growth regulators, insect repellents, miticides, molluscicides, nematicides, plant signal molecules, plant nutrients, plant fertilizers, predacides, piscicides, rodenticides, termiticides, viricides, and the like. The combinations may have additive effects or unexpected effects on pests, insects being one example, and/or on plant growth and/or plant yield. Also disclosed are methods for using the disclosed combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES BIOAG A/S
    Inventors: Christopher Hahne, Jarrod Leland, Calum Russell
  • Publication number: 20230227770
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides isolated Bacillus strains, as well as compositions comprising one or more of the isolated strains and methods of using the isolated strains and compositions to enhance crop growth/yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: Novozymes BIOAG A/S
    Inventors: Leah Blasiak, William Nathan Cude, Yaowei Kang, Timothy Liburn, Kate Brandon Sutton, Jonathon Pham
  • Publication number: 20230117947
    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: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Novozymes BIOAG A/S
    Inventors: R. Stewart Smith, Ahsan Habib, John Kosanke