Patents Examined by Yong D. Pak
  • Patent number: 10961524
    Abstract: Variants of chymosin with improved milk clotting properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: CHR. HANSEN A/S
    Inventors: Christian Jaeckel, Martin Lund, Johannes Maarten Van Den Brink
  • Patent number: 10961513
    Abstract: Compositions and methods using shufflon recombinases are presented for use in generating genetic diversity in molecules of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Timothy Kuan-Ta Lu, Sara da Luz Areosa Cleto
  • Patent number: 10954505
    Abstract: Variants of chymosin with improved milk clotting properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: CHR. HANSEN A/S
    Inventors: Christian Jaeckel, Martin Lund, Johannes Maarten Van Den Brink
  • Patent number: 10954534
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provided herein include genetically engineering microorganisms, such as yeast or bacteria, to produce cannabinoids by inserting genes that produce the appropriate enzymes for the metabolic production of a desired compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Librede Inc.
    Inventors: Jason L. Poulos, Anthony N. Farina
  • Patent number: 10947516
    Abstract: Described herein are polymerase variants that are exonuclease deficient. Some variants retain the strand displacement capability comparable to the wild-type or parental polymerase. Some variants have a strand displacement capability that is improved relative to the wild-type or parental polymerase. The variants may have an extension rate that is greater than the wild-type or parental polymerase. The variants may have a waiting time that is less than the wild-type or parental polymerase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Aruna Ayer, Arkadiusz Bibillo, Preethi Sarvabhowman, Dhruti Vasudev Dalal, Ilya Lederman, Eileen Thai
  • Patent number: 10947521
    Abstract: A process for producing recombinant trypsin from prokaryote host cells in high yield and high specific activity is described. In particular, a process for producing recombinant trypsin from E. coli is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Mark C. Sleevi, Jack Lile
  • Patent number: 10941389
    Abstract: Variants of chymosin with improved ? S1-casein cleavage and C/P properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: CHR. HANSEN A/S
    Inventors: Christian Jaeckel, Martin Lund, Enikö Fodor Hansen, Lone Riisberg, Iben Jeppesen, Johannes Maarten Van Den Brink
  • Patent number: 10920257
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of producing D-psicose. The method of producing D-psicose includes subjecting D-fructose to D-psicose epimerization to produce a D-psicose-containing solution, subjecting the D-psicose-containing solution to first cooling and ion purification, subjecting the purified D-psicose-containing solution to first concentration and second cooling, subjecting the D-psicose-containing solution, which has been subjected to first concentration and second cooling, to chromatography to obtain a D-fructose-containing mother liquor and a D-psicose-containing separated solution, and subjecting the D-psicose-containing separated solution to second concentration and third cooling to obtain D-psicose crystals, wherein the D-fructose-containing mother liquor produced by chromatography is reused in the D-psicose epimerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: CJ CHEILJEDANG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joo Hang Lee, Min Hoe Kim, Seong Bo Kim, Seung Won Park
  • Patent number: 10920205
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lipase variant of a parent lipase, which variant has lipase activity, at least 75% but less than 100% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 3 and comprises a substitution at one or more positions corresponding to positions 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 9; 10; 11; 12; 16; 19; 30; 31; 34; 36; 37; 39; 40; 42; 44; 51; 52; 53; 54; 56; 58; 59; 70; 71; 72; 73; 83; 84; 86; 88; 90; 92; 93; 95; 96; 100; 101; 102; 104; 106; 109; 110; 112; 117; 119; 124; 125; 127; 128; 131; 132; 133; 134; 135; 137; 158; 159; 160; 161; 162; 163; 165; 166; 167; 168; 170; 181; 182; 183; 189; 190; 192; 194; 196; 202; 210; 211; 212; 220; 225; 227; 228; 229; 230; 231; 233; 237; 238; 239; 240; 242; 246; 247; 248; 252; 259; 262; 264; 269 of SEQ ID NO: 3. 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: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Padmavathi Balumuri, Rakhi Saikia, Allan Svendsen, Lone Baunsgaard
  • Patent number: 10907137
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for production of 2?Fucosyllactose by a microbial system comprising a ?-1,2 fucosyltransferase (FucT2) polynucleotide and a Guanosine 5?-diphospho-?-L-fucose (GDP-L-fucose) synthesis pathway using lactose as a substrate. Furthermore, the present invention relates to compositions comprising the microbial system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignees: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Won-Heong Lee, Panchalee Pathanibul, Josh Quarterman, Michael J. Miller, Yong-Su Jin, Jin-Ho Seo
  • Patent number: 10889838
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for solubilisation or hydrolysis of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) with an enzyme blend and an enzyme composition for solubilization of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), the enzyme composition comprising a cellulolytic background composition and a protease, lipase and/or beta-glucanase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Henrik Bangsoe Nielsen, Lone Baekgaard, Joanna Wawrzynczyk, Hanne Soerensen, Lisa Rosgaard
  • Patent number: 10865394
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system to produce soluble, folded, and post-translationally modified proteins. The system includes a fusion protein comprising a catalytic domain of an enzyme involved in post-translational protein modification and a targeting domain, and a substrate protein comprising a protein of interest and a sequence that interacts with the targeting domain. The present disclosure also provides polynucleotide sequences encoding fusion proteins and substrate proteins, vectors for expressing polynucleotide sequences, vectors comprising the polynucleotide sequences, and isolated cells comprising said vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Washington University
    Inventors: Kristen Naegle, Roman Sloutsky
  • Patent number: 10865395
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to tagatose-6-phosphate phosphatase consisting of an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, a nucleic acid encoding the tagatose-6-phosphate phosphatase, and a transformant comprising the nucleic acid. Additionally, the present disclosure relates to a composition for producing tagatose, which comprises the tagatose-6-phosphate phosphatase of the present disclosure, and a method for producing tagatose using the tagatose-6-phosphate phosphatase of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: CJ CHEILJEDANG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sungjae Yang, Hyun Kug Cho, Young Mi Lee, Seong Bo Kim, Seong Jun Cho
  • Patent number: 10815472
    Abstract: The invention is in the field of biotechnology and involves recombinant DNA technology. It provides means and methods for obtaining an insoluble active fusion protein comprising xylose isomerase activity. More in particular, the invention relates to a method for obtaining active insoluble xylose isomerase, comprising the expression in a host organism of a recombinant gene encoding a fusion protein comprising a xylose isomerase in combination with a PPIase, thereby obtaining the active insoluble xylose isomerase. It also provides recombinant fusion proteins comprising xylose isomerase activity as well as their use in converting xylose to xylulose and glucose to fructose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: METGEN OY
    Inventors: Klara Birikh, Anu Minna Maaret Suonpää
  • Patent number: 10806157
    Abstract: Variants of chymosin with improved milk-clotting properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: CHR. HANSEN A/S
    Inventors: Johannes Maarten Van Den Brink, Martin Lund, Jonas Jacobsen, Sari Charlotte Hansen, Iben Jeppesen
  • Patent number: 10787656
    Abstract: The invention is directed to novel alkaline proteases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Fomia BioSolutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Goutami Banerjee, Jie Yang, Khin Oo, Xiyun Zhang, Eric Lin Hu, Imad N. Sawaya
  • Patent number: 10787649
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a recombinant host cell which is capable of producing a dicarboxylic acid and which comprises a mutant malate dehydrogenase resulting in an increased production of the dicarboxylic acid. The invention also relates to a process for producing a dicarboxylic acid, which method comprises fermenting said recombinant host cell in a suitable fermentation medium and producing the dicarboxylic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.
    Inventors: Alrik Pieter Los, Rene Marcel De Jong, Remko Tsjibbe Winter, Ben Den Dulk
  • Patent number: 10781407
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for laundering a textile, the use of a polypeptide having DNase activity and a detergent composition comprising a polypeptide having deoxyribonuclease (DNase) activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventor: Klaus Gori
  • Patent number: 10781437
    Abstract: A method for one of altering and enhancing the stereospecificity of an enzyme comprising introducing a stereospecific editing domain into the enzyme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Eric Allen First, Charles Joseph Richardson
  • Patent number: 10781467
    Abstract: Provided are a 3-epimerase, an encoding polynucleotide therefor, a nucleic acid construct, vector, and host cell comprising the polynucleotide, a method for producing the 3-epimerase, and use of the 3-epimerase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: LANGNAI BIOTECH CO., LTD, L&P FOOD INGREDIENT CO., LTD
    Inventors: Sanyong Wang, Chunrong Li, Shilei Han, Ming Yan, Miao Wei, Sheng Chen, Zhilin Zhang