Patents Assigned to Texel
  • Use of strains of which are incapable of hydrolyzing urea in dairy products
    Patent number: 6962721
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of at least one strain of Streptococcus thermophilus which is incapable of hydrolyzing urea in the manufacture of cheese or fermented dairy products such as yogurts in order to obtain an acidification kinetic which is independent from the content of various components of the milk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignees: Texel, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
    Inventors: Anne-Marie Sepulchre, Christophe Monnet, Georges Corrieu
  • Non RCR leuconostoc plasmid capable of being transferred into lactic acid bacteria, use as cloning and expressing tool
    Patent number: 6528285
    Abstract: The invention concerns a plasmid having a replication mode which is not of the RCR type, and capable of being transferred in stable form into host lactic acid bacteria belonging at least to three different kinds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Texel
    Inventors: Franck Biet, Yves Cenatiempo, Christophe Fremaux
  • Bacterial disinfection of flora-contaminated papermaking process streams
    Patent number: 5360517
    Abstract: Bacteria of the genus Staphylococcus or Acinetobacter are used in effective disinfectant amounts to regulate the growth of the microbial/bacterial flora existing in aqueous papermaking circuits/process streams, notably bacteria of the species Staphylococcus carnosus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Texel
    Inventors: Pierre Guerineau, Peter Rosli