Patents Examined by Deborah D. Carr
  • Patent number: 11345875
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for recovering oil from processed plant materials and by-products formed during a milling process used for producing ethanol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: POET Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Blake A. Schnell, Kristin M. Calar, John C. Keeler, Matthew J. Rindsig, Benjamin G. Oster, Brett A. Flittie, Steven T. Bly
  • Patent number: 11339351
    Abstract: A free fatty acid-containing substance, which is a waste liquid or by-product obtained in a process for producing palm oil or which is a hydrolysate of the waste liquid or by-product, is subjected to distillation treatment to obtain a free fatty acid fraction satisfying the requirements (i), (ii) and (iii), and a polyhydroxyalkanoate-producing microorganism is cultured in a culture solution containing the free fatty acid fraction. (i) The content of squalene is 0.05 wt % or less. (ii) The ratio of a peak area of trimethylindene to a peak area of a naphthalene-d8 standard is 110 or less in first-dimensional dynamic headspace-GC/TOFMS analysis. (iii) The ratio of a peak area of butyric acid to a peak area of a naphthalene-d8 standard is less than 10 in first-dimensional dynamic headspace-GC/TOFMS analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Igari, Wanying Lee, Shingo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11339110
    Abstract: There is provided a crystalline Form I of anhydrous Treprostinil and processes for the preparation thereof. The crystalline Form I of anhydrous Treprostnil is a stable crystalline form, which can provide steady physicochemical properties for pharmaceutical formulations, and is advantageous widely and safety used in storage, shipment, and handling for commercially considerations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: CHIROGATE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Shih-Yi Wei, Jian-Bang Jheng, Ming-Kun Hsu, Min-Kuan Hsu, Tzyh-Mann Wei
  • Patent number: 11332432
    Abstract: Compounds, compositions, and methods related to bioenergetic metabolism are provided. The compounds and com positions are suited to promote bioenergetic processes including cellular respiration and glycolytic flux and may be used to treat mitochondrial disorders, neurodegenerative diseases (such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease, and/or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), multiple sclerosis, and/or epilepsy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: University of Kansas
    Inventors: Russell Swerdlow, Laird Forrest, Jordan Hunt, Heather Wilkins, Eli Michaelis
  • Patent number: 11332428
    Abstract: Methods and systems for producing alkyl hydroxyalkanoate from hydroxy carboxylic acid recovery bottoms. The methods generally comprise the steps of obtaining a hydroxy carboxylic acid recovery bottom, adding a mono-alcohol to the hydroxy carboxylic acid recovery bottom to obtain a first mixture, heating the first mixture in the presence of a catalyst to form a reaction product, distilling the reaction product, and recovering an alkyl hydroxyalkanoate fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Walter Abraham, Ravi R. Gokarn
  • Patent number: 11324230
    Abstract: The present invention relates to food compositions, in particular soft food compositions comprising amorphous porous particles, the amorphous porous particles comprising sweetener, bulking agent and surfactant. Further aspects of the invention relate to a spread having an enhanced sweetness perception and a process for manufacturing a food composition having a soft texture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventors: Reinhard Behringer, Mathieu Julien Destribats, Cedric Dubois, Marina Dupas-Langlet, Vincent Daniel Maurice Meunier, Joydeep Ray, Andrew Steven Whitehouse
  • Patent number: 11319281
    Abstract: This invention relates to a wax composition comprising a plurality of fatty acid amide compounds having the Formula (I): where R1, R2, n1, n2, m1, and m2 are as described herein. This invention also relates to a wax composition comprising: a) one or more fatty acid amide compounds having the Formula (II): and b) one or more fatty acid amide compounds having the Formula (III): where R1, R2, n1, and n2 are as described herein. This invention also relates to a fatty acid amide compound having the Formula (I) and a process for preparing a compound of Formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Tong Wang, Tao Fei
  • Patent number: 11286229
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing an ester-based composition, which includes mixing a dibenzoic acid and a carboxylic acid to prepare an acid mixture and reacting the acid mixture with an alcohol, wherein a product of the reaction includes a benzoic acid ester-based material and a carboxylic acid ester-based material. The preparation method can improve a reaction rate and a temperature rising rate, and can also reduce energy, by adding a carboxylic acid and/or a carboxylic acid ester-based material in a preparation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Kyu Kim, Jeong Ju Moon, Joo Ho Kim, Mi Yeon Lee
  • Patent number: 11278621
    Abstract: The invention relates to trans carotenoid compounds and salts thereof as well as compositions thereof, methods for making them, and uses thereof. These compounds are useful in improving diffusivity of oxygen between red blood cells and body tissues in mammals including humans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: DIFFUSION PHARMACEUTICALS LLC
    Inventors: John L. Gainer, Marc Lanz
  • Patent number: 11272718
    Abstract: [Problem] To suppress the oxidized odor of an oil-and-fat, enhance and sustain the flavor and taste of a raw material oil-and-fat, provide or enhance the oil-and-fat flavor of meat, or provide an oil-and-fat imparted or enhanced with the oil-and-fat flavor of meat. [Solution] The present invention provides a flavor oil-and-fat obtained by adding a yeast digest to an edible oil-and-fat and heating the resulting mixture, wherein the yeast digest is a yeast autolysate or a yeast enzyme digest, contains a water-soluble component derived from yeast, an insoluble component derived from yeast, a lipid derived from yeast, at least 4 wt % of RNA, and at least 15 wt % of peptide, and contains 65% or more of water-soluble components after solubilization of the yeast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CORPORATION LIFE SCIENCES LIMITED
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Uchimura, Hirotaka Yamashita, Sakiko Ikeda, Toshiya Sato, Maiko Yoshino
  • Patent number: 11274073
    Abstract: The present invention relates to TRPV1 modulator compounds of formula (I) or their pharmaceutically, veterinary or cosmetically acceptable salts, or their stereoisomers or mixtures thereof, wherein m is an integer selected from 1 to 3; R1, R2, R6 and R6? are independently selected from H, (C1-C8)alkyl, unsaturated (C2-C8)hydrocarbon, and (C3-C6)cycloalkyl, being these groups optionally substituted; R3 is hydrogen or halogen; R4 is selected from H, (C1-C8)alkyl, unsaturated (C2-C8)hydrocarbon, (C3-C6)cycloalkyl, (C6-C12)aryl, and (C5-C12)heteroaryl, being these groups optionally substituted; and R5 is selected from (C3-C28)alkyl, unsaturated (C3-C28)hydrocarbon, (C6-C12)aryl, and (C5-C12)heteroaryl, being these groups optionally substituted. It also relates to a process for their preparation, to pharmaceutical, veterinary or cosmetic compositions containing them, and to their pharmaceutical, veterinary and cosmetic applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: ANTALGENICS, S.L.
    Inventors: Isabel Devesa Giner, Armando Genazzani, Tracey Pirali, Asia Fernandez Carvajal, Antonio Vicente Ferrer Montiel
  • Patent number: 11248190
    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: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobushige Doisaki, Kiyomi Furihata, Hideaki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11236035
    Abstract: Provided are novel treprostinil salts as well as methods for making treprostinil salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: United Therapeutics Corporation
    Inventors: Hitesh Batra, Vijay Sharma, Sanmin Yang, Yi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11220520
    Abstract: The present invention relates primarily to processes conducted in a continuously operated reactor for preparing particular phosphorus-containing ?-aminonitriles of the formulae (Ia) and (Ib) defined hereinafter from corresponding phosphorus-containing cyanohydrin esters and to the use thereof for preparation of glufosinate or of glufosinate salts. The present invention further relates to a process for producing glufosinate/glufosinate salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Kilian Tellmann, Gunter Karig, Heike Ehrich, Michael Sebek
  • Patent number: 11207291
    Abstract: The invention relates is directed to antimicrobial compositions comprising cannabinoid compounds and methods of utilizing the antimicrobial compositions to inhibit the growth of microorganisms, to treat and/or prevent microbial infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Graphium Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon Joel Zipp, Robert Thomas Brooke
  • Patent number: 11186802
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for the decarboxylation, isomerization, hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, and cyclization/aromatization of fatty acids involving contacting a starting material which is an unsaturated fatty acid, unsaturated fatty acid derivative, or an unsaturated triglyceride, in the presence of a catalyst at a temperature at which decarboxylation, isomerization, hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, and cyclization/aromatization occurs and recovering the unsaturated organic compound product; wherein the catalyst is chloro-1,5-cyclooctadiene iridium (I) dimer. The product may contain at least about 8% by volume aromatic content and less than about 25% by volume aromatic content, and wherein the product contains less than about 1% by volume of naphthalenes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Doll, Bryan R. Moser, Gerhard H. Knothe
  • Patent number: 11185523
    Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to compounds and compositions including chemotherapy agents and/or radiation therapy with bipolar trans carotenoids, and the use of such compounds for the treatment of various cancers including pancreatic and brain cancers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: DIFFUSION PHARMACEUTICALS LLC
    Inventor: John L. Gainer
  • Patent number: 11180434
    Abstract: A continuous-flow process for the production of allyl compounds by deoxydehydration of glycerol includes: (a) Forming a reactive solution by mixing glycerol (1) with: a carboxylic acid (2), and/or a triethyl orthoester, preferably triethyl orthoformate (TEOF); (b) Feeding the reactive solution to an inlet of a channel of a thermolysis microreactor module wherein the channel has an inner hydraulic diameter, D=4 A/P, wherein A is the area and P the perimeter of a cross-section of the channel, of not more than 1000 ?m, (c) Exposing the reactive solution to thermolysis by driving a flow of the reactive solution along the channel from the inlet to an outlet, for a thermolysis time, t, at a pressure, P, and at a thermolysis temperature, T, larger than 200° C., to form thermolysis products including at least one allyl compound; and Recovering the thermolysis products at the outlet and separating the at least one allyl compound from the other thermolysis products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE
    Inventors: Jean-Christophe Monbaliu, Nelly Ntumba Tshibalonza
  • Patent number: 11180696
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns a method of making a ligand for Quantum Dot functionalization, a method of making a functionalized Quantum Dot (QD) with a ligand, and a method of making a transparent luminescent quantum dot thiol-yne nanocomposite with tailorable optical, thermal, and mechanical properties. The prepolymer solution and functionalized Quantum Dot can be used in additive manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Darryl A. Boyd, Michael H. Stewart, Kimihiro Susumu, Eunkeu Oh, James P. Wissman
  • Patent number: 11162111
    Abstract: Wax esters (WE) and triacylglycerols (TAG) can be accumulated in large amounts in plant cells. The present invention relates to insect pheromone precursors which are produced as components of WE or TAG in plants. Further the invention concerns means and methods for the production of plant cells producing WE and/or TAG containing insect pheromone precursors in form of either a fatty acid or a fatty alcohol. Said method uses plants where wax esters are modified by desaturase, fatty acyl reductase and wax ester synthase or the triacylglycerol is modified by a desaturase. Finally the insect pheromone precursors can be extracted and used in the manufacturing of insect pheromones from WE and TAG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Inventors: Per Hofvander, Sten Stymne, Christer Löfstedt, Bao-Jian Ding