Patents Assigned to Novozymes
  • Use of Cyclodextrins for Reducing Deposits During Paper Production
    Publication number: 20090020243
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preventing or reducing deposits in pulp and paper making processes by including a cyclodextrin during or after pulp formation in an amount effective for preventing or reducing the deposits. Optionally the cyclodextrin comprising the deposit is subsequently separated from the pulp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: Novozymes North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Hui Xu, Jing Luo, Kim Bloomfield, Julie Clemmons
  • ALCOHOL PRODUCT PROCESSES
    Publication number: 20090017511
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for production of an alcohol product from granular starch comprising a pre-treatment at an elevated temperature below the initial gelatinization temperature of said granular starch followed by simultaneous saccharification and fermentation, and optionally recovery of ethanol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Hans Sejr Olsen, Sven Pedersen, Rikke Monica Festersen
  • Polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Publication number: 20090019608
    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: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Alfredo Lopez de Leon, Hanshu Ding, Kimberly Brown
  • Methods for producing biological substances in pigment-deficient mutants of cells
    Patent number: 7476516
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of producing a heterologous biological substance, comprising: (a) cultivating a mutant of a parent Bacillus cell under conditions conducive for the production of the heterologous biological substance, wherein (i) the mutant cell comprises a first nucleic acid sequence directing synthesis of the heterologous biological substance and a second nucleic acid sequence comprising a modification of at least one of the genes cypX and yvmC, which are involved in the production of a red pigment, and (ii) the mutant cell is deficient in the production of the red pigment compared to the parent Bacillus cell when cultivated under the same conditions; and (b) recovering the heterologous biological substance from the cultivation medium. The present invention also relates to mutants of Bacillus cells and methods for producing the mutants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Maria Tang, Alan Sloma, David Sternberg, Regine Behr
  • Meat Based Food Product
    Publication number: 20090011086
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for producing a meat based food product by treating meat with a phospholipase, to a meat based food product obtainable by the method of the invention and to use of a phospholipase for producing a meat based food product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventor: Per Munk Nielsen
  • Polypeptides having Lipase Activity and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20090011462
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptide having lipase activity and which further has a RP of at least 0.8 and a BR of at least 1.1 at the test conditions given in the specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Jesper Vind, Kim Borch, Mikael Mikkelsen, Jurgen Carsten Franz
  • Processes for Producing a Fermentation Product
    Publication number: 20080318284
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing a fermentation product comprising (a) saccharifying starch-containing material below the initial gelatinization temperature in the presence of i) from 0.001-50 AGU/g DS, preferably 0.01 to 10 AGU/g DS alpha-glucosidase activity more than the native amount of endogenous alpha-glucosidase present in the starch-containing material, and ii) from 0 (zero) to 10 FAU-F/g DS of alpha-amylase activity, and (b) fermenting using a fermenting organism. The invention also relates to an enzymatic composition for use in a process of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Novozymes North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Chee Leong Soong, Shiro Fukuyama, Jiyin Liu
  • Subtilases
    Publication number: 20080318271
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel JP170 like subtilases from wild-type bacteria, hybrids thereof and to methods of construction and production of these proteases. Further, the present invention relates to use of the claimed subtilases in detergents, such as a laundry or an automatic dishwashing detergent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Preben Nielsen, Poul Erik Pedersen, Helle Outtrup
  • Proteases for Pharmaceutical Use
    Publication number: 20080317726
    Abstract: The pharmaceutical use of proteases related to amino acids 1-274 of SEQ ID NO: 2, the serine protease derived from Bacillus licheniformis, which is also designated subtilisin Carlsberg, optionally in combination with a lipase and/or an amylase. Examples of medical indications are: Treatment of digestive disorders, pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (PEI), pancreatitis, cystic fibrosis, diabetes type I, and/or diabetes type II.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicants: Novozymes A/S, Solvay Pharmaceuticals GmbH
    Inventors: Allan Svendsen, Claus Crone Fuglsang, Peter Colin Gregory
  • VARIANT LIPOLYTIC ENZYMES
    Publication number: 20080311242
    Abstract: The inventors have developed improved polypeptides by substituting or deleting specified amino acids in fungal lipolytic enzymes. More particularly, the polypeptides result in a reduction of dough stickiness when they are added to a dough. The polypeptides may particularly have activity on polar lipids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Kim Borch, Luise Erlandsen, Jesper Vind, Allan Svendsen, Christel Jorgensen
  • Variant lipolytic enzymes
    Patent number: 7465570
    Abstract: The inventors have developed improved polypeptides by substituting or deleting specified amino acids in fungal lipolytic enzymes. More particularly, the polypeptides result in a reduction of dough stickiness when they are added to a dough. The polypeptides may particularly have activity on polar lipids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Kim Borch, Luise Erlandsen, Jesper Vind, Allan Svendsen, Christel Thea Jorgensen
  • PROCESSES FOR MAKING ETHANOL
    Publication number: 20080305206
    Abstract: The present invention provides improved processes for recovering components of distillers' grain, such as, the components of distillers' dried grain (DDG), for use in various applications, including in the production of ethanol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicants: Novozymes A/S, Novozymes North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Henrik Bisgaard-Frantzen, Lori Hendersen
  • Combining BioPolishing and Bleach Clean-up
    Publication number: 20080301882
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions for treating textile, wherein the textile is treated by a system for removing hydrogen peroxide and an enzyme system for bio-polishing in one step to achieve the biopolishing and bleach clean up effect. The present invention further provides a one step process to achieve biopolishing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Harm Albertus Kuilderd, Guifang Wu, Haijing Li, Quan Zhou
  • Protein Hydrolysate Compositions Having Improved Sensory Characteristics and Physical Properties
    Publication number: 20080305212
    Abstract: The present invention provides protein hydrolysate compositions, processes for making protein hydrolysate compositions, and food products comprising protein hydrolysate compositions. The protein hydrolysate compositions generally comprise polypeptide fragments having primarily either an arginine residue or a lysine residue at each carboxyl terminus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicants: SOLAE, LLC, NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Theodore M. Wong, Phillip S. Kerr, Parthasarathi Ghosh, Jason F. Lombardi, Yadilka Maldonado, Gitte B. Lynglev, Tine Hoff, Lars LH Christensen, Peter R. Oestergaard
  • Compositions for degrading cellulosic material
    Publication number: 20080299613
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cellulolytic compositions for degrading or converting cellulose-containing material and methods of producing and using the compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Sandra Merino, Keith McFarland, Joel Cherry, Sarah Teter
  • Process For Producing Cheese
    Publication number: 20080299252
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing cheese comprising treating the cheese milk, or a fraction of the cheese milk, with phospholipase C and/or phospholipase D.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Tine Fatum, Don Higgins
  • LIPOLYTIC ENZYMES VARIANTS
    Publication number: 20080293120
    Abstract: The inventors have developed improved polypeptides by substituting or deleting specified amino acids in fungal lipolytic enzymes. More particularly, the polypeptides result in a reduction of dough stickiness when they are added to a dough. The polypeptides may particularly have activity on polar lipids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Kim Borch, Luise Erlandsen, Jesper Vind, Allan Svendsen, Christel T. Jorgensen
  • Methods for degrading or converting plant cell wall polysaccharides
    Publication number: 20080293109
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for converting plant cell wall polysaccharides into one or more products, comprising: treating the plant cell wall polysaccharides with an effective amount of a spent whole fermentation broth of a recombinant microorganism, wherein the recombinant microorganism expresses one or more heterologous genes encoding enzymes which degrade or convert the plant cell wall polysaccharides into the one or more products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Randy Berka, Joel Cherry
  • Proteases and Methods for Producing Them
    Publication number: 20080293104
    Abstract: A secreted mature polypeptide derived from an S2A or S1E protease which after maturation has protease activity, which polypeptide when expressed and before maturation comprises a heterologous pro-region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventor: Soren Flensted Lassen
  • ALBUMIN-FUSED CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR
    Publication number: 20080293638
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fusion protein comprising an albumin, or a fragment or a variant or a derivative thereof and at least one biologically active peptide which activates the ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) receptor, or a fragment or variant or a derivative thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES BIOPHARMA UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Mathias Jurs, Thomas Weimer, Hans-Peter Hauser, Darrell Sleep