Patents Assigned to Novozymes, Inc.
  • Polypeptides Having Cellobiohydrolase Activity and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20160237416
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase 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: May 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Novozymes Inc.
    Inventor: Nikolaj Spodsberg
  • Polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 9409958
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing 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 of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Kirk Schnorr, Randall Kramer
  • Methods for enhancing the degradation or conversion of cellulosic material
    Patent number: 9410136
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for degrading or converting a cellulosic material and for producing a substance from a cellulosic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Kirk Schnorr, Randall Kramer
  • Polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and nucleic acids encoding same
    Patent number: 9410165
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing 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: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimberly Brown, Paul Harris, Elizabeth Zaretsky, Edward Re, Elena Vlasenko, Keith McFarland, Alfredo Lopez de Leon
  • Methods for obtaining positive transformants of a filamentous fungal host cell
    Patent number: 9404101
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for obtaining positive transformants of a filamentous fungal host cell, comprising: transforming a tandem construct into a population of cells of the filamentous fungal host a tandem construct and isolating a transformant of the filamentous fungal host cell comprising the tandem construct. The present invention also relates to such tandem constructs, filamentous fungal host cells comprising such tandem constructs, and methods of producing multiple recombinant proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventor: Donna Moyer
  • Dehydrogenase variants and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 9404091
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 3-hydroxypropionate dehydrogenase 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 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignees: Novozymes, Inc., Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Monica Tassone, Leonardo De Maria
  • Compositions comprising a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a heterocyclic compound and uses thereof
    Patent number: 9404137
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising: a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a heterocyclic compound. The present invention also relates to methods of using the compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES, INC.
    Inventors: Feng Xu, Matthew Sweeney, Jason Quinlan
  • Polypeptides having carboxypeptidase activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 9399769
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having carboxypeptidase 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 of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Rey
  • Compositions comprising a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a dioxy compound and uses thereof
    Patent number: 9394555
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising: a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a dioxy compound. The present invention also relates to methods of using the compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Sweeney, Feng Xu, Jason Quinlan
  • Polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 9376670
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase 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 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Novozymes Inc.
    Inventor: Nikolaj Spodsberg
  • Methods for enhancing the degradation of cellulosic material with chitin binding proteins
    Patent number: 9371551
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for degrading or converting a cellulosic material and for producing substances from the cellulosic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventor: Feng Xu
  • Polypeptides Having Lipase Activity and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20160168547
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having lipase 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: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicants: Novozymes Inc., Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Suzanne Otani, Debbie Yaver, Haiyan Ge, Janine Lin, Christopher Amolo, Kim Borch, Shamkant Anant Patkar, Michael Lamsa, Barbara Cherry
  • Polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 9365843
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing 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 of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Junxin Duan, Lan Tang, Wenping Wu
  • 3-hydroxypropionic acid production by recombinant yeasts
    Patent number: 9365875
    Abstract: Provided herein are recombinant yeast cells having an active 3-Hydroxypropionic Acid (3-HP) pathway and further comprising a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a non-phosphorylating NADP-dependent glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPN). Also described are methods of using the recombinant yeast cells to produce 3-HP and acrylic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES, INC.
    Inventor: Mariah Bindel
  • Promoters for expressing genes in a fungal cell
    Patent number: 9359630
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated promoters and constructs, vectors, and fungal host cells comprising such promoters operably linked to polynucleotides encoding polypeptides. The present invention also relates to methods for producing such polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Catlett, Debbie Yaver
  • Polypeptides having xylanase activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 9353360
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase 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 of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Alfredo Lopez de Leon, Michael Rey
  • Compositions comprising a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a nitrogen-containing compound and uses thereof
    Patent number: 9353391
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising: a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a nitrogen-containing compound. The present invention also relates to methods of using the compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES, INC.
    Inventors: Jason Quinlan, Feng Xu, Matthew Sweeney
  • Polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 9340810
    Abstract: The present invention provides isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also provides nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Lan Tang, Svend Hostgaard Bang Henriksen
  • Methods for producing polypeptides in enzyme-deficient mutants of fusarium venentatum
    Publication number: 20160102315
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of producing a polypeptide, comprising: (a) cultivating a mutant of a parent Fusarium venenatum strain in a medium for the production of the polypeptide, wherein the mutant strain comprises a polynucleotide encoding the polypeptide and one or more (several) genes selected from the group consisting of pyrG, amyA, and alpA, wherein the one or more (several) genes are modified rendering the mutant strain deficient in the production of one or more (several) enzymes selected from the group consisting of orotidine-5?-monophosphate decarboxylase, alpha-amylase, and alkaline protease, respectively, compared to the parent Fusarium venenatum strain when cultivated under identical conditions; and (b) recovering the polypeptide from the cultivation medium. The present invention also relates to enzyme-deficient mutants of Fusarium venenatum strains and methods for producing such mutants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Shasky, Wendy Yoder
  • Polypeptides having C4 dicarboxylic acid transporter activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 9303275
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having C4-dicarboxylic acid transporter 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 of producing and using the polypeptides, and methods of producing C4-dicarboxylic acids, such as malic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES, INC.
    Inventors: Amanda Fischer, Debbie Yaver