Patents Examined by Deborah D. Carr
  • Patent number: 11618865
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an oil and fat composition, use thereof and a food comprising the oil and fat composition. The oil and fat composition of the disclosure comprises 50-99.5 wt % triglyceride and 0.5-50 wt % wax by the total weight of the composition, the triglyceride is represented by the following formula (1), and the definitions of the groups in formula (1) are as recorded in the description. The oil and fat composition is suitable for preparation of a food.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Wilmar (Shanghai) Biotechnology Research & Development Center Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiang Chen, Yan Zheng, Yongqing Chi
  • Patent number: 11607401
    Abstract: Blended, processed marijuana and/or hemp cannabis compounds and methods of making the same are provided. In particular, the compound includes one or more species of cannabis mixed in various ways with other ingredients in order to produce a new matter, food product, oil, or drink, in the form of gummies, creams, salves, tablets, capsules, pastes, gelatin suppositories, crystals, ointments, jellies, e-juices, powders, pills, syrups, drops, patches, chewing gums, dried whole or partial plant parts, and dusts, such that it is safe for mammals and provides assistance in dealing with various ailments and diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Inventor: William H. Muscarella
  • Patent number: 11597953
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially eicosapentaenoic acid, docosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, in recombinant cells such as yeast or plant cells. Also provided are recombinant cells or plants which produce long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a group of new enzymes which possess desaturase or elongase activity that can be used in methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION
    Inventors: Surinder Pal Singh, Stanley Suresh Robert, Peter David Nichols, Susan Irene Ellis Blackburn, Xue-Rong Zhou, James Robertson Petrie, Allan Graham Green
  • Patent number: 11564400
    Abstract: A hardstock fat composition for use in making edible water-in-oil emulsions such as spreads, in particular (but not exclusively) when produced using the hardstock in the form of micronized fat powder, and process to use such hardstock fat to make a fat slurry and to make a water-in-oil emulsion (like spreads) using such hardstock fat. The hardstock fat may give improved properties of the resulting emulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: UPFIELD EUROPE B.V.
    Inventors: Georg Christian Dol, Frederik Michiel Meeuse, Jan Alders Wieringa
  • Patent number: 11530369
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates methods and systems for refining grain oil compositions using water, and related compositions produced therefrom. The present disclosure also relates to methods of using said compositions. The present disclosure also relates to methods of using grain oil derived from a fermentation product in an anti-foam composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Poet Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Shannon S. Urban, Cory J. Sarks, Brett A. Flittie, Jacob A. Milbrandt, Steven T. Bly, Alex T. McCurdy
  • Patent number: 11525103
    Abstract: Docosahexaenoic acid-containing oil containing docosahexaenoic acid in a concentration of 40 wt. % or more of the total weight of fatty acids in the oil, and having an endothermic peak temperature determined by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of 15° C. or lower; a biomass including the same; and a method for producing docosahexaenoic acid-containing oil including obtaining a biomass by culturing microorganisms of the genus Aurantiochytrium capable of producing this docosahexaenoic acid-containing oil, recovering the biomass after culture, and extracting the oil from the biomass after recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sekiguchi, Yuji Okita, Yumiko Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 11510418
    Abstract: A process for mixing two or more streams of liquid oil which can be operated continuously, using a multi-inlet vortex mixer. The process is well suited to a process in which at least two streams of liquid oil have a different temperature, one being oil liquid at room temperature, one being solid at room temperature, but being melted for the mixing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: UPFIELD EUROPE B.V.
    Inventors: Frederik Michiel Meeuse, Robert Beltman, Ozgur Gunyol
  • Patent number: 11505763
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for enzymatic degumming of unrefined triglyceride oil, said process comprising the following successive steps: (a) providing an unrefined triglyceride oil having a phosphorus content of at least 100 mg per kg of unrefined triglyceride oil; (b) combining the unrefined triglyceride oil with water, an acid and a phospholipase to produce an oil-in-water emulsion having a pH in the range of 2.5 to 4.5; said phospholipase being selected phospholipase A1, phospholipase A2 and combinations thereof; (c) keeping the emulsion at a temperature of 20-90° C. for at least 10 minutes; (d) introducing a base into the emulsion; and (e) separating degummed triglyceride oil from the emulsion. This enzymatic degumming process is extremely effective in removing phospholipids, including non-hydratable phospholipids (NHP), from unrefined vegetable oils and produces degummed vegetable oil in high yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Purac Biochem B.V.
    Inventor: Danilo Marques de Lima
  • Patent number: 11503838
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing cooking oil, and cooking oil and food manufactured using the same, wherein the manufacturing method includes a) roasting a vegetable raw material by far infrared rays, b) expressing the roasted vegetable raw material to obtain an oil or fat composition containing a first active ingredient, c) obtaining an extract containing a second active ingredient from a residue of the vegetable raw material remaining after the oil or fat composition is expressed, and d) mixing the oil or fat composition with the extract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Queensbucket. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong Yong Park, Yeo Sook Lim, Hyeong Nam Jung
  • Patent number: 11499119
    Abstract: PROBLEM To provide a composition comprising highly enriched PUFA or its alkyl esters while containing fatty acid esters of 3-MCPD at adequately low concentrations and to provide an efficient method for producing the composition. MEANS FOR SOLVING A composition that contains fatty acids or fatty acid alkyl esters as its major component, the composition containing highly unsaturated fatty acid or alkyl ester thereof, wherein the proportion of the highly unsaturated fatty acid in the constituent fatty acids of the composition is 50 area % or more and wherein the concentration of 3-MCPD as found upon analyzing the composition by American Oil Chemists' Society official method Cd 29b-13 assay A is less than 1.80 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobushige Doisaki, Kiyomi Furihata, Hideaki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11492302
    Abstract: A process for producing methane or methanol includes combining a hydrogenation catalyst, hydrogen, and CO2 with a condensed phase solution comprising an amine under conditions effective to form methane or methanol, and water. A process for coproduction of methanol and a glycol includes combining an epoxide, a hydrogenation catalyst, hydrogen, and CO2 with a condensed phase solution comprising an amine under conditions effective to form methanol and a glycol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Jotheeswari Kothandaraman, David J. Heldebrant, Robert A. Dagle, Yuan Jiang, Johnny Saavedra Lopez
  • Patent number: 11485698
    Abstract: Provided is a method capable of industrially efficiently producing acetic acid yielding a good potassium permanganate test result, without costing much. In the acetic acid production method, (1) by-produced acetaldehyde is industrially advantageously removed from a process stream, and (2) a crotonaldehyde concentration in an acetic acid stream from a light ends column is controlled to a specific level or lower, and/or a reflux ratio at a second distillation column is controlled to 0.1 or more. In addition, (3) the method includes the step of subjecting at least one of an aqueous phase and an organic phase of a light ends column overhead condensate to distillation in a crotonaldehyde-removing column; the light ends column is operated at a reflux ratio of 2 or more (when the aqueous phase is refluxed); and the crotonaldehyde-removing column is operated so as to meet a specific condition(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiko Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11473038
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process to make high water bars with a high speed extrusion process by using specific types and amounts of electrolytes in combination. The bars are produced with no negatives generally associated with use of electrolytes. Disclosed is an extruded soap bar composition wherein the bar comprises: a) 20 to 40% of water; b) 20 to 75% by wt. anhydrous soap; wherein C16 to C24 saturated soap comprises 12% to 45% by wt. of total bar. c) structurants comprises at least from 0.05 to 35% by wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: CONOPCO, INC.
    Inventors: Gislene Splendore Bortolai, Sergio Roberto Leopoldino, Enio Mitsuki Oura, Yuriy Konstantinovich Yarovoy, Rodrigo Alves De Mattos
  • Patent number: 11473037
    Abstract: A two-stage method produces a liquid soap, having an alkaline pH and stable viscosity, so as to be efficacious in controlling pathogens and generating a thick lather which optimizes its cleansing and disinfecting effects. The method involves saponification of natural and/or synthetic oils/fats using of two lyes—potassium hydroxide and sodium hydroxide—which, when combined in roughly equal proportions, yield a lathery liquid soap without the need for synthetic surfactants or chemical thickeners. The method is also distinctive insofar as it first produces a solid soap concentrate, from which the liquid soap can be made simply by dissolving the solid soap concentrate in water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Lucky Red Chicken, Inc.
    Inventors: Wendy Ives, Andrew Ives
  • Patent number: 11459289
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a first repeat unit defined by where R includes a first hydrocarbon chain that includes at least one olefinic bond, R5 includes a second hydrocarbon chain, the second hydrocarbon chain may be saturated, and n may be between 2 and 1,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Rorrer, Gregg Tyler Beckham, Caroline Bradshaw Hoyt
  • Patent number: 11453635
    Abstract: A method of making cyclobutane-1,2-diacid building blocks includes using trans-cinnamic acid in its beta form (head to head packing) and photodimerizing the trans-cinnamic acid to create cis-cyclobutane-1,2-dicarboxylic acid (CBDA-4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: University of North Dakota
    Inventors: Qianli Chu, Zhihan Wang
  • Patent number: 11453637
    Abstract: Methods for preparing isotopically modified 1,4-diene systems from non-isotopically modified 1,4-dienes involve selective oxidation of one or more bis-allylic position(s), or the preparation of isotopically modified 1,4-diene systems via trapping pi-allylic complexes with a source of deuterium or tritium. Such methods are useful for preparing isotopically modified polyunsaturated lipid including polyunsaturated fatty acids and polyunsaturated fatty acid derivatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Retrotope, Inc.
    Inventors: Dragoslav Vidovic, Mikhail Sergeevich Shchepinov
  • Patent number: 11447441
    Abstract: Methods for preparing isotopically modified 1,4-diene systems from non-isotopically modified 1,4-dienes involve selective oxidation of one or more bis-allylic position(s), or the preparation of isotopically modified 1,4-diene systems via trapping pi-allylic complexes with a source of deuterium or tritium. Such methods are useful for preparing isotopically modified polyunsaturated lipid including polyunsaturated fatty acids and polyunsaturated fatty acid derivatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Retrotope, Inc.
    Inventors: Dragoslav Vidovic, Mikhail Sergeevich Shchepinov
  • Patent number: 11427781
    Abstract: Products produced from distillers corn oil include once refined corn oil product, food grade corn oil product, and free fatty acid product which may be used in a variety of applications. The products have varying specifications for free fatty acid content and moisture content. The applications include food, feed, additives, and manufacture of industrial products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Corn Oil One, LLC
    Inventors: Mohan Prasad Dasari, Kidron Joel Knox, Charles C Gallop, Kurt A Dieker, Hugh Tallant Warren, Shashank Ravi
  • Patent number: 11427526
    Abstract: A method of preparing a compound of formula (I): is disclosed. The compound of formula (I) can be used as an antioxidant agent. The compound can also be used as an antibacterial agent to inhibit Staphylococcus aureus MRSA 18-222 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa MDR-PA 18-1774.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: XI'AN KANGYUANSHENG BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jia Wan, Jie Zhang, Chunchun Kong, Yi Jin, Min Fan, Han Li, Qiaoqiao Zhao, Dan Yang