Patents Examined by David Steadman
  • Patent number: 12098410
    Abstract: Recombinant Zymomonas mobilis for producing ethylene glycol, method and uses thereof are provided. The recombinant Zymomonas mobilis carries and expresses genes related to a synthesis pathway of xylonic acid and genes related to a synthesis pathway of ethylene glycol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Hubei University
    Inventors: Shihui Yang, Xiongying Yan, Mian Li, Xia Wang, Qiaoning He
  • Patent number: 12091652
    Abstract: This disclosure provides, inter alia, an optimized strain of Nitrosomonas eutropha (N. eutropha) designated D23, D23-100, or AOB D23-100. N. eutropha bacteria disclosed in this application have desirable properties, e.g., optimized properties, such as the ability to suppress growth of pathogenic bacteria, and an enhanced ability to produce nitric oxide and nitric oxide precursors. The N. eutropha herein may be used, for instance, to treat diseases associated with low nitrite levels, skin diseases, and diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: AOBIOME LLC
    Inventors: David R. Whitlock, Spiros Jamas, Larry Weiss, Ioannis Gryllos
  • Patent number: 12060542
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions such as cleaning compositions comprising enzymes. The invention further relates to the use of the compositions comprising such enzymes in cleaning processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Rebecca Munk Vejborg, Dorotea Raventos Segura, Jesper Salomon, Johanne M. Jensen, Rune Nygaard Monrad, Anne Vindum Due, Martin Gudmand
  • Patent number: 12043851
    Abstract: Disclosed are DNA polymerases having improved ability to incorporate methylated-dNTPs, relative to a corresponding, unmodified polymerase. The polymerases are useful in a variety of disclosed primer extension methods. Also disclosed are related compositions, including recombinant nucleic acids, vectors, and host cells, which are useful, e.g., for production of the DNA polymerases. Further disclosed are kits and reaction mixtures comprising the improved DNA polymerases as well as methods of primer extension using the improved DNA polymerases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith A. Bauer, Barbara Eckert
  • Patent number: 12037609
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to biological processes and systems for the production of isopropanol and/or acetone utilizing modified alcohol dehydrogenases that exhibit increased activity with NADH as a cofactor. The disclosure further relates to polynucleotides and polypeptides of the modified alcohol dehydrogenases, and host cells containing the polynucleotides and expressing the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Verônica Leite Queiroz, Lucas Pedersen Parizzi, Iuri Estrada Gouvea, Debora Noma Okamoto, Rafael Victório Carvalho Guido, Alessandro Silva Nascimento, Igor Polikarpov
  • Patent number: 12018235
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mannanase 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: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Vivek Srivastava, Markus Klinger, Rakhi Saikia, Vijaya Shankar Nataraj, Sohel Dalal, Jens Erik Nielsen
  • Patent number: 11999957
    Abstract: A method of enhancing vanillin resistance of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, including: knocking out SNG1 gene from a genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This application further provides a mutant of SNG1 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae including the nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, where the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, from left to right, consists of a ?18˜+203 bp fragment of SNG1 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a nucleotide fragment of loxp-KanMX4-loxp and a +1446˜+1644 bp fragment of the SNG1 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: QILU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xiaoming Bao, Liyun Song, Xinning Wang, Wenyan Cao, Weiquan Zhao, Zailu Li
  • Patent number: 11987826
    Abstract: The present invention provides a nitrilase mutant protein with increased thermal stability and its application in the synthesis of an anti-epileptic drug intermediate, wherein the mutant is obtained by mutating one or two of the amino acids at position 151, 223 and 250 of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 2. the thermal stability of the nitrilase mutant AcN-T151V/C223A/C250G was increased by up to 1.73 folds. The yield of the final product was up to 95% using the recombinant Escherichia coli containing the nitrilase mutant to hydrolyze 1M 1-cyanocyclohexylacetonitrile to produce 1-cyanocyclohexyl acetic acid at 35° C. And the yield of the final product was up to 97% when hydrolyzing 1.2M 1-cyanocyclohexylacetonitrile at 35° C. The final yield was up to 80% when using the nitrilase mutants obtained by the present invention to synthesize gabapentin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yaping Xue, Neng Xiong, Peijin Lv, Yuguo Zheng
  • Patent number: 11980207
    Abstract: Provided are methods for producing food products comprising recombinant components, and compositions used in and food products produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Perfect Day, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Geistlinger, Heather Jensen, Ravirajsinh Jhala, Hendrik Meerman, Balakrishnan Ramesh, Ty Wagoner, Timothy Scott Johnson, Vincent Wei-Xiang Wu, Francesca Manea
  • Patent number: 11970725
    Abstract: Provided herein are E. coli host strains with improved capacity for producing recombinant proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Scarab Genomics LLC
    Inventors: Frederick R. Blattner, Robert E. Novy, David A. Frisch, Charles Landry, Hyunsic Choi, Eric A. Steffen, John Brandon
  • Patent number: 11965202
    Abstract: A method for making 2-oxygenated decalins, and products thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: GIVAUDAN SA
    Inventors: Felix Flachsmann, Eric Eichhorn
  • Patent number: 11959109
    Abstract: A horseshoe crab Factor C protein having activity of Factor C, wherein the horseshoe crab is selected from Tachypleus tridentatus, Limulus polyphemus, and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda, and wherein the horseshoe crab Factor C protein is produced through being recombinantly expressed from a Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) DG44 cell or HEK cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru Mizumura, Toshio Oda, Shun-ichiro Kawabata
  • Patent number: 11952608
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for producing oxygenated terpenoids. Polynucleotides, derivative enzymes, and host cells for use in such methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Manus Bio Inc.
    Inventors: Ajikumar Parayil Kumaran, Chin Giaw Lim, Liwei Li, Souvik Ghosh, Christopher Pirie, Anthony Qualley
  • Patent number: 11932845
    Abstract: The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms having a 4-hydroxybutyrate, 1,4-butanediol, or other product pathway and being capable of producing 4-hydroxybutyrate, 1,4-butanediol, or other product, wherein the microbial organism comprises one or more genetic modifications. The invention additionally provides methods of producing 4-hydroxybutyrate, 1,4-butanediol, or other product or related products using the microbial organisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Genomatica, Inc.
    Inventors: Priti Pharkya, Anthony P. Burgard, Stephen J. Van Dien, Robin E. Osterhout, Mark J. Burk, John D. Trawick, Michael P. Kuchinskas, Brian Steer
  • Patent number: 11905523
    Abstract: Provided herein are gene therapy compositions and methods for treating, preventing, and/or curing NPC1. More specifically, the disclosure provides Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors for delivery of nucleic acids and nucleic acids (including AAV transfer cassettes) for treating, preventing, and/or curing NPC1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel McCoy, Garrett E. Berry, David Dismuke
  • Patent number: 11879101
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of application of bioengineering technology in microbial oil recovery, and discloses a Brevibacillus agri strain and preparation thereof and a method for preparing surfactant, and use thereof. The Brevibacillus agri strain is deposited in the China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center under the accession number CGMCC No. 9983. The Brevibacillus agri and its preparation may effectively enhance the crude oil recovery; the method for preparing the surfactant allow the lipopeptide biosurfactant to have good physical properties, effectively reduce the surface tension, and have good emulsifying performance for petroleum, various hydrocarbons and lipids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Yangtze University
    Inventors: Yuehui She, Fan Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Puyong Yao, Fei Li, Hao Dong, Shanshan Sun, Gaoming Yu, Shaojin Yi, Wenda Zhang, Linqi Hu, Yangyang Feng, Anying Zheng, Yang Li
  • Patent number: 11873516
    Abstract: Provided herein are engineered DNA polymerases comprising modifications improving accuracy and processivity of the polymerase including modifications in the Motif A region, optionally, along with additional modifications in the palm and/or exonuclease domains of the polymerase. Also provided are nucleic acids encoding the engineered DNA polymerases comprising modifications in motif A of the polymerase, optionally, with additional modifications. Methods, vectors, kits, and compositions comprising the nucleic acids and compositions, methods and kits comprising the engineered polymerases are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: PACIFIC BIOSCIENCES OF CALIFORNIA, INC.
    Inventors: Pinar Iyidogan, Mariam Iftikhar, Bridget Kidd, Lewis Churchfield
  • Patent number: 11859224
    Abstract: The disclosure provides methods of manufacturing products comprising allulose produced by contacting a protein having allulose 3-epimerase activity with a fructose substrate under conditions such that the fructose substrate is converted into allulose. The disclosure also provides methods of manufacturing products comprising allulose produced by providing a vector comprising a nucleic acid molecule having a polynucleotide sequence encoding a protein having allulose 3-epimerase activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Tate & Lyle Solutions USA LLC
    Inventors: Ryan David Woodyer, Richard W. Armentrout
  • Patent number: 11851692
    Abstract: Disclosed are an antimycin compound and a preparation method and use thereof. The preparation method comprises: fermenting a marine actinomycete (Streptomyces sp.4-7) with a preservation number CCTCCNO: M2020953 to obtain a fermented product and soaking and extracting the fermented product with ethyl acetate to obtain a crude extract; and carrying out separation and purification by normal-phase silica gel column chromatography, reversed-phase MPLC, and semi-preparative reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. The invention has the advantages of resistance against Botrytis cinerea and Penicillium citrinum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NINGBO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Lijian Ding, Shan He, Wenhao Li, Weiyan Zhang, Yingying Wei
  • Patent number: 11845953
    Abstract: Provided is a method for altering a targeted site of a DNA in a cell, including a step of stimulating the cell with a factor inducing a DNA modifying enzyme endogenous to the cell, and bringing a complex of a nucleic acid sequence-recognizing module specifically binding to a target nucleotide sequence in a given DNA and a DNA modifying enzyme-binding module bonded to each other into contact with the DNA to convert one or more nucleotides in the targeted site to other one or more nucleotides or delete one or more nucleotides, or insert one or more nucleotides into the targeted site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Keiji Nishida, Akihiko Kondo, Takayuki Arazoe, Shin Yoshioka