Patents Assigned to Nutrinova
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Patent number: 9138011Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compositions X comprising following substances: (1) L-valine; (2) maltol; (3) naringin; (4) maltodextrine MD 14 (5) arabicgum (spraygum); (6) acetoin; (7) delta dodecalactone; (8) delta decalactone; and (9) massoia lactone.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialist & Food Ingredients GmbHInventors: Clemens M. Putter, Johann Wonschik
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Patent number: 9024016Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention relates to processes for producing acesulfame potassium. In one embodiment, the process comprises the step of reacting a first reaction mixture to form an amidosulfamic acid salt such as a trialkyl ammonium amidosulfamic acid salt. The first reaction mixture comprises sulfamic acid, an amine, and smaller amounts, if any, acetic acid, e.g., less than 1 wt % (10000 wppm). In terms of ranges, the first reaction mixture may comprise from 1 wppm to 1 wt % acetic acid. The process further comprises the step of reacting the amidosulfamic acid salt with diketene to form an acetoacetamide salt. In preferred embodiments, the amidosulfamic acid salt formation reaction is conducted at pH levels from 5.5 to 7.0. The process further comprises the step of deriving the acesulfame-K from the acetoacetamide salt.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialists & Food Ingredients GmbHInventors: Michael J. Bayer, Stephan Brietzke, Peter Groer, Christoph Mollenkopf
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Patent number: 8658830Abstract: The present invention describes a method to recover organic tertiary amines from waste sulfuric acid comprising the following steps: a) reacting i) waste sulfuric acid comprising organic tertiary amines with ii) ammonia in an amount sufficient to obtain a pH of 9.5 or higher and b) separating the organic tertiary amines from the reaction mixture obtained in step a) wherein during the separation the pH of the reaction mixture is adjusted at a pH of 9.5 or higher.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients GmbHInventors: Stephan Brietzke, Peter Groer, Carl Christoph Mollenkopf
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Publication number: 20140010939Abstract: The present invention relates to novel sweetness enhancer compounds of the formula (I), or a stereoisomer or a salt or a hydrate thereof, to the use of a compound of formula (I) or a stereoisomer or a salt or a hydrate thereof as a sweetness enhancer, to sweetener compositions comprising at least one sweetener and a compound of formula (I) or a stereoisomer or a salt or a hydrate thereof, to a method for the manufacture of a compound of formula (I) or a stereoisomer or a salt or a hydrate thereof, to methods of making the sweetener compositions and to tabletop sweetener compositions comprising a compound of formula (I) or a stereoisomer or a salt or a hydrate thereof. Further, the invention relates to consumables comprising a consumable product and a compound of formula (I) or a stereoisomer or a salt or a hydrate thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2012Publication date: January 9, 2014Applicant: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients GmbHInventors: Michael Krohn, Simon Seibert, Alice Kleber, Johann Wonschik, Karsten Siems, Jens-Peter Muller, Lars Ole Haustedt, Oliver Schwarz
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Publication number: 20140004244Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compositions X comprising following substances: (1) L-valine; (2) maltol; (3) naringin; (4) maltodextrine MD 14 (5) arabicgum (spraygum); (6) acetoin; (7) delta dodecalactone; (8) delta decalactone; and (9) massoia lactone.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2012Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients GmbHInventors: Clemens M. Putter, Johann Wonschik
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Patent number: 8496905Abstract: The present invention describes a method manufacture of an ammonium sulfate composition having a total organic carbon (TOC) content of 1% by weight or less than 1% by weight, based on the total weight of the composition, comprising the following steps: a) reacting i) waste sulfuric acid comprising an organic tertiary amines with ii) ammonia in an amount sufficient to obtain a pH of 9.5 or higher b) separating the organic tertiary amine from the reaction mixture obtained in step a) wherein during the separation the pH of the reaction mixture is maintained at a pH higher than 10 and c) optionally reducing the content of water and/or other volatile components from the aqueous solution comprising the ammonium sulfate.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients GmbHInventors: Stephan Brietzke, Peter Groer, Carl Christoph Mollenkopf
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Publication number: 20130136839Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a sweetener composition comprising: a sweetener and at least one flavoring. The at least one flavoring is suitable for modifying, masking, reducing and/or suppressing an unpleasant off-taste of the sweetener in a consumable product composition formed by adding the sweetener composition to a consumable product. A weight ratio of the at least one flavoring to the sweetener in the consumable product composition is such that the sweetness of the sweetener is detectable by taste in the consumable product composition and the flavor of the at least one flavoring is not detectable by taste in the consumable product composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2012Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients GmbHInventor: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients
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Publication number: 20130136836Abstract: The present invention in one aspect, relates to a composition X comprising the following substances: at least one bitter blocking agent; at least one carbonyl compound; and at least one lactone.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2012Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients GmbHInventor: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients
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Publication number: 20130096350Abstract: The present invention describes a method to recover organic tertiary amines from waste sulfuric acid comprising the following steps: a) reacting i) waste sulfuric acid comprising organic tertiary amines with ii) ammonia in an amount sufficient to obtain a pH of 9.5 or higher and b) separating the organic tertiary amines from the reaction mixture obtained in step a) wherein during the separation the pH of the reaction mixture is adjusted at a pH of 9.5 or higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2011Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients GmbhInventors: Stephan Brietzke, Peter Groer, Carl Christoph Mollenkopf
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Patent number: 8409798Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the rapid and simple identification of PUFA PKS in microorganisms. Said method is characterized by the fact that DNA sections representing PKS that produce specifically for PUFA (polyunsaturated fatty acids) are reproduced in vitro. The PUFA PKS-specific amino acid sequence LGIDSIKRVEIL makes it possible to derive oligonucleotides which are used for the efficient PCR screening for PUFA PKS genes or PUFA-producing microorganisms. The inventive method is particularly suitable for the high throughput screening of microorganisms for PUFA PKS genes.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2005Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients GmbHInventors: Markus Luy, Matthias Rüsing
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Publication number: 20130078193Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention is to a sweetener composition comprising at least one sweetener and a pregelatinized starch, in particular to novel sweetener compositions that have a prolonged sweetener release rate and that provide a prolonged sweetening sensation to the consumer. The pregelatinized starch comprises particles having a plurality of pores having a specific average pore diameter. The sweetener is disposed in at least one of the pores. At least 50% of the particles has an average particle size of at least 50 microns.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients GmbhInventor: Johann Wonschik
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Publication number: 20120201935Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of rosmarinic acid as a sweetness enhancer, to sweetener compositions comprising a sweetener and rosmarinic acid, to methods of making the sweetener compositions and to tabletop sweetener compositions comprising rosmarinic acid. Further, the invention relates to consumables comprising a consumable product and rosmarinic acid. Preferred consumable products are water-based consumables, solid dry consumables, dairy products, dairy-derived products and dairy-alternative products.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: NUTRINOVA NUTRITION SPECIALTIES & FOOD INGREDIENTS GMBHInventors: Michael Krohn, Simon Seibert, Alice Kleber
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Patent number: 8067235Abstract: The present invention relates to a screening system for modulators of GPCRs. Further it relates to recombinant vector systems for the heterologous expression of heterodimeric g-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) in eukaryotic host cells. Preferably the functional expression of engineered GPCRs for the perception of sweet and L-amino acid taste or more preferably the use of these receptors for the identification of functional ligands is also encompassed.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2009Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients GmbHInventors: Michael Krohn, Holger Zinke
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Patent number: 8067236Abstract: The present invention relates to a screening system for modulators of GPCRs. Further it relates to recombinant vector systems for the heterologous expression of heterodimeric g-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) in eukaryotic host cells. Preferably the functional expression of engineered GPCRs for the perception of sweet and L-amino acid taste or more preferably the use of these receptors for the identification of functional ligands is also encompassed.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2009Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients GmbHInventors: Michael Krohn, Holger Zinke
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Publication number: 20110256291Abstract: The invention relates to the use of one or more cyclic lipopeptides, such as surfactins A, B, and C and derivatives and mixtures thereof, as a taste modulator and/or sweetness enhancer for comestible compositions containing at least one natural or artificial sweetener. The comestible compositions include food, beverages, medicinal products and cosmetics and contain preferably mono-, di- or oligosaccharides as sweeteners. The invention further relates to said comestible compositions containing a cyclic lipopeptide as taste modulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2009Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: NUTRINOVA NUTRITION SPECIAL TIES & FOOD INGREDIENT GMBHInventors: Michael Krohn, Holger Zinke
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Patent number: 7939305Abstract: The invention relates to genes which are coded for sequences specific to polyketide synthases (PKS). The thus synthesized PKS is characterized by the enzymatic capacity thereof to produce PUFAs (polyunsaturated fatty acids). The invention also relates to the identification of the corresponding DNA-sequences, in addition to the use of said nucleotide sequences for the production of recombined and/or transgenic organisms.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2005Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients GmbHInventors: Markus Luy, Matthias Rüsing, Thomas Kiy
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Patent number: 7588791Abstract: A process for increasing the concentration of PUFA triglycerides present in natural PUFA oils, in which a natural PUFA oil having a triglyceride content of more than 85% by weight, based on the total weight of the mixture, and having a total PUFA content of more than 39% by weight of total fatty acids is dissolved in an organic solvent or an organic solvent mixture, the mixture is allowed to stand at a temperature of from ?35° C. to ?100° C. for a period of more than five minutes, the mixture is separated into a supernatant comprising PUFA-triglyceride mixture and a sediment phase, the separation preferably taking place by filtration or centrifugation, and the solvent or solvent mixture, after the removal of the sediment phase, is separated from the supernatant.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2002Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients GmbHInventor: Dirk Fabritius
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Patent number: 7476522Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the fermentative production of lipids/fatty acids having high concentrations of omega-6 fatty acids (PUFA, polyunsaturated fatty acids), especially ?-linolenic acids (GLA) in ciliates. Said lipids/fatty acids can be used in human/animal food, and in the pharmaceutical field.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2006Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients GmbHInventors: Anton Van V. Putten, Tanja König, Dirk Fabritius, Thomas Kiy, Alexander Leske, Joern Plote
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Publication number: 20080175975Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a fatty acid composition which, based on the entire weight of the fatty acids and/or fatty acid derivatives contained in the fatty acid composition, contains at least 70.0% by weight of docosahexaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic alkyl ester. The inventive method comprises the following steps: a) transesterifying a biomass obtained from Ulkenia sp. with an alcohol, thereby producing at least one docosahexaenoic alkyl ester and at least one saturated fatty acid ester, b) producing a solution which contains urea, at least a part of the biomass from step a) and at least one organic solvent, c) cooling or concentrating the solution from step b), thereby producing i) a precipitate which contains urea and at least a part of the saturated fatty acid esters, and ii) a liquid fraction, and d) separating the precipitate i) from the liquid fraction ii).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2006Publication date: July 24, 2008Applicant: NUTRINOVA NUTRITION SPECIALTIES & FOOD INGREDIENTS GMBHInventor: Dirk Fabritius
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Patent number: 7365219Abstract: The invention relates to a novel extraction method for obtaining at least one unsaturated, optionally derivatized compound, from mixtures of said compounds with other less saturated constituents, e.g. for obtaining polyunsaturated fatty acids or the derivatives thereof from mixtures with saturated and/or less unsaturated, optionally derivatized fatty acids, by means of selective complexation with a cation exchanger which is partially or fully charged with silver ions, and subsequent decomplexation.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2002Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Indredients GmbHInventors: Dirk Fabritius, Silke Reimann, Doreen Neumann, Daniel Minoer