Patents by Inventor Annette Van Oystaeyen

Annette Van Oystaeyen 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).

  • BENEFICIAL YEASTS FOR ARTHROPODS
    Publication number: 20190373870
    Abstract: Methods for rearing arthropods, particularly pollinating insects, comprising providing said arthropods with a Wickerhamiella yeast, preferably Wickerhamiella bombiphila yeast, also known as Candida bombiphila, or substances produced thereby, particularly comprised within a food composition, are provided herein. Advantageously, said yeast, particularly food compositions comprising said yeast, when provided to an arthropod, particularly a pollinating insect, improves the fitness, health, behaviour and activity of the arthropod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicants: BIOBEST GROUP N.V., KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
    Inventors: Maria Isabel Pozo Romero, Alfredo Benavente Martinez, Annette Van Oystaeyen, Hans Jacquemyn, Jacek Bartlewicz, Felix Wäckers