Patents Examined by Richard G Hutson
  • Patent number: 12247215
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lysosomal protein composition comprising a plurality of lysosomal proteins that are potentially diversely glycosylated according to a glycosylation pattern, wherein said glycosylation pattern has at least 45% paucimannosidic N-glycans; a method of manufacturing the lysosomal protein composition in a bryophyte plant or cell, and medical and non-medical uses of the lysosomal protein composition. E.g. the lysosomal protein can be ?-Galactosidase for the treatment of Fabry Disease or ?-Glucoceramidase for the treatment of Gaucher's Disease. The unique glycosylation results in improved therapeutic efficacy—surprisingly even without mannose-6-phosphate that is common for CHO cell produced lysosomal proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: ELEVA GMBH
    Inventors: Paulina Dabrowska-Schlepp, Fode Benjamin, Andreas Busch, Holger Niederkrüger, Andreas Schaaf
  • Patent number: 12247230
    Abstract: Provided are mutant polymerases having DNA polymerase activity and reverse transcriptase activity or strand displacement activity, along with target nucleic acid amplification methods employing such mutant polymerases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: DNA POLYMERASE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Wayne M. Barnes, Milko B. Kermekchiev, Zhian Zhang
  • Patent number: 12241101
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a microorganism that efficiently produces a PUFA and a method for producing a PUFA using the microorganism. The present invention relates to a microorganism capable of producing a polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA), in which a gene encoding an exogenous polyketide synthase dehydratase (PS-DH) domain having a higher activity against 3-hydroxyhexanoyl acyl carrier protein (3-hydroxyhexanoyl ACP) than an endogenous FabA-like ?-hydroxyacyl-ACP dehydratase (FabA-DH) domain has been introduced into a microorganism having a PUFA metabolic pathway, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: KYOWA HAKKO BIO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tohru Dairi, Yasuharu Satoh, Shohei Hayashi, Yasushi Ogasawara, Tetsuro Ujihara
  • Patent number: 12227782
    Abstract: Provided is an inexpensive and efficient microbiological method for producing a protein. The method for producing a protein comprises culturing a microorganism in the presence of glycosylamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomu Shibata, Toshiharu Arai
  • Patent number: 12227547
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides AcrIIA7 polypeptides, nucleic acids encoding the AcrIIA7 polypeptides, and kits comprising the AcrIIA7 polypeptides and/or nucleic acids encoding the ACRIIA7 polypeptides. The present disclosure provides methods of inhibiting an activity of a Cas9 polypeptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Doudna, Kyle E. Watters, Haridha Shivram, Christof Fellmann
  • Patent number: 12221645
    Abstract: Processes for producing reduced coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) are provided. The processes may include preparing a reaction mixture, which includes oxidized CoQ10, a reductase, a supplement coenzyme, a coenzyme regeneration enzyme, and a substrate of the coenzyme regeneration enzyme, and providing a condition so that components of the reaction mixture react to produce the reduced CoQ10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: KINGDOMWAY BIOTECHNOLOGY (JIANGSU) CO., LTD., INNER MONGOLIA KINGDOMWAY PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD., JIANGSU CHENGXIN PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD., XIAMEN KINGDOMWAY GROUP COMPANY
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Bingrong Wang, Fei Xu, Fei Xing, Dan Li
  • Patent number: 12221644
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to the field of specialty chemicals and methods for their synthesis. In embodiments, the disclosure provides viable bacterial cells which comprise heterologous dual 3-hydroxy-acyl-ACP dehydratase/isomerases, etc. The disclosure further provides monounsaturated fatty acid derivative molecules produced by the viable bacterial cells which are non-native to the bacterial cells. The disclosure further provides methods for the preparation and production of non-native monounsaturated fatty acid derivative molecules such as e.g., an ?3-monounsaturated fatty acid derivative, an ?5-monounsaturated fatty acid derivative, an ?9-monounsaturated fatty acid derivative, an ?11-monounsaturated fatty acid fatty acid derivative, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Genomatica, Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas W. Schirmer, Katherine Ann Murphy, Erin Frances Perry
  • Patent number: 12215383
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, kits, systems and apparatus that are useful for nucleic acid polymerization. In particular, modified polymerases and biologically active fragments thereof, such as modified Taq polymerases, are provided that allow for improved nucleic acid amplification. In some aspects, the disclosure provides modified polymerases having improved thermostability, accuracy, processivity and/or read length as compared to a referenceTaq polymerase. In some aspects, the disclosure relates to modified polymerases or biologically active fragments thereof, useful for amplification methods, and in practically illustrative embodiments, emulsion PCR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Life Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Mazur, Eileen Tozer, Sihong Chen, Peter Vander Horn, Tommie Lincecum
  • Patent number: 12203109
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention is a phospholipase C mutant with high enzyme activity, a polypeptide with the sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO:7, or a polypeptide derived from the phospholipase C formed by performing substitution, deletion or addition of one or a plurality of amino acids on the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:7 while retaining the phospholipase C activity provided by SEQ ID NO:7. The phospholipase C mutant of the present invention can improve degumming efficiency and increase the yield of diacylglycerol (DAG) during degumming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Wilmar (Shanghai) Biotechnology Research & Development Center Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yaoji Xuan, Qiwen Niu, Zhengjun Xu
  • Patent number: 12203115
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are described for selecting and identifying orthogonal aminoacyl synthetase-tRNA pairs and their use to incorporate unnatural amino acids in a site-specific manner in proteins. Specifically described is a novel E. coli tyrptophanyl synthetase-tRNA pair that functions as both an opal and amber suppressor and that incorporates tryptophan analogs into proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Trustees of Boston College
    Inventors: Abhishek Chatterjee, James Italia
  • Patent number: 12188057
    Abstract: The present invention provides an isolated peptide of SEQ ID NO: 1 needed for primase active as well as new replicative DNA polymerase enzymes, preferably that of SEQ ID NO: 2, comprising said peptide. Thus, these DNA polymerases are endowed with priming activity and do not require externally provided primers for initiating and performing DNA amplification. These polymerases are able to carry out a faithful and processive de novo DNA synthesis of DNA templates in the absence of pre-synthetized primers. Therefore, these enzymes of the invention act both as primases and DNA polymerases. Furthermore, they show translesion synthesis capacity, so that they may be useful not only for whole-genome amplification but also for the amplification of damaged DNAs. The invention further refers to methods for amplifying templates DNAs using these enzymes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS (CSIC), INSTITUT PASTEUR
    Inventors: Margarita Salas Falgueras, Modesto Redrejo Rodriguez, Mart Krupovic, Patrick Forterre
  • Patent number: 12188064
    Abstract: The invention relates to subtilase variants and detergent compositions comprising the variants, as well as methods of producing the variants and methods for stabilizing a subtilase variant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Esben Peter Friis, Rolf Thomas Lenhard, Lars Lehmann Hylling Christensen, Carl Mikael Bauer
  • Patent number: 12173368
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to compositions and analysis of RNA (e.g., dephosphorylated oligoribonucleotides) including, for example, natural and/or synthetic RNAs. A composition may comprise, for example, an endoribonuclease having an amino acid sequence that (i) corresponds to an amino acid sequence of a first species (e.g., Homo sapiens, Escherichia coli, Aspergillus oryzae, Momordica charantia, Pyrococcus furiosus, Cucumis sativus, and Sus scrofa) or (ii) is a non-naturally occurring sequence; and/or an RNA end repair enzyme having an amino acid sequence that (i) corresponds to an amino acid sequence of a species other than the first species (e.g., a bacterial species or a bacteriophage species) or (ii) is a non-naturally occurring sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: New England Biolabs, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan R. Correa, Jr., Eric Wolf, Nan Dai, Erbay Yigit, Sebastian Grünberg
  • Patent number: 12173335
    Abstract: This invention relates to recombinant nucleic constructs comprising a sequence-specific DNA binding protein, DNA-dependent DNA polymerase and a DNA encoded repair template, optionally a DNA endonuclease or wherein the sequence-specific DNA binding protein comprises DNA endonuclease activity, and methods of use thereof for modifying nucleic acids in cells and organisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Pairwise Plants Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jingyi Nie, Aaron Hummel, Shai Joshua Lawit
  • Patent number: 12168769
    Abstract: The present invention provides high efficiency targeted and marker-less single, double, triple, quadruple, and quintuple integrations by using CRISPR in host cells, including Pichia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Amyris, Inc.
    Inventor: Hanxiao Jiang
  • Patent number: 12163188
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are modified polymerase compositions exhibiting altered polymerase activity, which can be useful in a variety of biological applications. Also disclosed herein are methods of making and using such compositions. In some embodiments, the compositions exhibit altered properties that can enhance their utility in a variety of biological applications. Such altered properties, can include, for example, altered nucleotide binding affinities, altered nucleotide incorporation kinetics, altered photostability and/or altered nanoparticle tolerance, as well as a range of other properties as disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Life Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen P. Hendricks, Michael Phelan, Marian Peris, Cheng-Yao Chen, Daniel Mazur, Xinzhan Peng, Amy Castillo
  • Patent number: 12163163
    Abstract: Provided herein are engineered variants of archaeal polymerases that exhibit exonuclease-minus activity, enhanced thermostability, enhanced incorporation of 3? modified nucleotides, improved uracil-tolerance and/or reduce sequence-specific errors in polymerase-catalyzed nucleotide binding and extension reactions relative to wild type polymerase enzymes. Also provided are uses of the engineered polymerases for forming complexed polymerases and forming binding complexes, and uses for conducting nucleic acid sequencing reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: ELEMENT BIOSCIENCES, INC.
    Inventors: Jendrik Boothby-Hentschel, Tyler Lopez, Michael Klein, Virginia Saade, Matthew Kellinger, Mark Ambroso
  • Patent number: 12157886
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a Type II CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system, belonging to the technical field of genome editing. The genome editing system comprises a Cas9 protein, helper proteins, a CRISPR RNA and a trans-activated CRISPR RNA; wherein the Cas9 protein is a DNA endonuclease, and the Cas9 protein has an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, or an amino acid sequence with at least 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 98%, or 99% homology to the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1. According to the disclosure, through bioinformatics analysis, the Type II CRSIPR/Cas9 genome editing system in the Faecalibaculum rodentium is discovered, and the genome editing system is applied to editing prokaryotic or eukaryotic genes and provides a new selection for a genome editing toolbox.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: ZHUHAI SHU TONG MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui Tian, Long Huang, Hongxian Xie
  • Patent number: 12157906
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a fermentation broth by culturing a microorganism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: VERSALIS S.P.A.
    Inventors: Herman Jan Pel, Maaike Appeldoorn, Rolf Poldermans
  • Patent number: 12139732
    Abstract: Novel engineered non-natural deaminases are provided. Methods and compositions are provided for modifying the genome of a cell, including a plant cell. Genome modification through guided CRISPR polypeptides and multiple deaminases are provided. Engineered non-natural novel deaminases, including adenosine deaminases are provided. These novel deaminases have improved activity in cells including plant cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC
    Inventors: Zhenglin Hou, Sandeep Kumar, Joshua K Young