Patents by Inventor Alphons Gerar Joseph Voragen

Alphons Gerar Joseph Voragen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Enzyme with rhamnogalacturonase activity
    Patent number: 5811291
    Abstract: An enzyme exhibiting rhamnogalacturonase activity, capable of cleaving a rhamnogalacturonan backbone in such a manner that galacturonic acids are left as the non-reducing ends, and which exhibits activity on hairy regions from a soy bean material and/or on saponified hairy regions from a sugar beet material. The enzyme has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 and is encoded by the DNA sequence of SEQ ID NO:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventors: Lene Venke Kofod, Lene Nonboe Andersen, Henrik Dalb.o slashed.ge, Markus Sakari Kauppinen, Stephan Christgau, Hans Peter Heldt-Hansen, Claus Christophersen, Per Munk Nielsen, Alphons Gerar Joseph Voragen, Hendrik Arie Schols