Patents by Inventor BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.,
BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC., 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).
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Publication number: 20130227741Abstract: The invention is directed to polypeptides having any cellulolytic activity, e.g., a cellulase activity, e.g., endoglucanase, cellobiohydrolase, beta-glucosidase, xylanase, mannanse, ?-xylosidase, arabinofuranosidase, and/or oligomerase activity, including thermostable and thermotolerant activity, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, and making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. The polypeptides of the invention can be used in a variety of pharmaceutical, agricultural, food and feed processing and industrial contexts. The invention also provides compositions or products of manufacture comprising mixtures of enzymes comprising at least one enzyme of this invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicants: Verenium Corporation, BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventors: BP Corporation North America Inc., Verenium Corporation
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Publication number: 20130210102Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods for detoxifying a hydrolysate obtained from a lignocellulosic biomass and methods of producing ethanol from the detoxified hydrolysate. The present methods provide detoxified hydrolysates in which the quantity of compounds that are deleterious to fermenting microorganisms are substantially reduced relative to the starting hydrolysate and in which the amount of total fermentable sugars loss is minimal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2013Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventor: BP Corporation North America Inc.
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Publication number: 20130210103Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods for detoxifying a hydrolysate obtained from a lignocellulosic biomass and methods of producing ethanol from the detoxified hydrolysate. The present methods provide detoxified hydrolysates in which the quantity of compounds that are deleterious to fermenting microorganisms are substantially reduced relative to the starting hydrolysate and in which the amount of fermentable sugars loss is minimal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2013Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventor: BP Corporation North America Inc.
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Publication number: 20130180711Abstract: Methods and systems for operating a valve control system to control a valve in a wellbore include identifying a differential pressure arrangement of a plurality of differential pressure arrangements for actuating the valve to a desired state based on a differential pressure of at least two pressure sources of the wellbore and a present state of the valve. Once identified, the differential pressure arrangement of the at least two pressure sources are utilized to initiate actuation of the valve from the present state to the desired state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2013Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.Inventor: BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.
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Publication number: 20130185113Abstract: A non-transitory, computer-readable storage device comprises software that, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to track one or more well work opportunities. For example, the software may cause the computer to receive input, from a user input device, information pertaining to well work opportunity for an existing production rig, and perform an analysis of the well work opportunity based on the information to compute an incremental increase in rate of production from the production rig and a time period by which an investment will be paid back. The software may also cause the computer to compare the incremental increase in rate of production and the time period to a table that cross references incremental rates of production to time periods, assign a ranking to the well work opportunity based on the comparison, and display the ranking.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.Inventor: BP Corporation North America Inc.
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Publication number: 20130161022Abstract: System and method provide a rapid mobilization and deployment technique for effectively mechanically dispersing marine oil spills that either eliminates or reduces the use of chemical dispersants. The disclosed systems and methods work by mechanically generating finely dispersed oil and gas droplets which may improve the dispersion of the hydrocarbons into the water column which can increase the rate of natural degradation of hydrocarbons in the water column.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.Inventor: BP Corporation North America INC.
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Publication number: 20130160353Abstract: Disclosed herein are oils, including fatty acid triglyceride and fatty acid ester compositions suitable for the production of biofuel, biofuels, and methods for producing such materials and compositions. These materials and compositions comprise substantially no sterol glycosides.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2012Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventor: BP Corporation North America Inc.
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Publication number: 20130149210Abstract: This invention relates to methods and units for mitigation of carbon oxides during hydrotreating hydrocarbons including mineral oil based streams and biological oil based streams. A hydrotreating unit includes a first hydrotreating reactor for receiving a mineral oil based hydrocarbon stream and forming a first hydrotreated product stream, and a second hydrotreating reactor for receiving a biological oil based hydrocarbon stream and forming a second hydrotreated product stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2013Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventor: BP Corporation North America Inc.
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Publication number: 20130109055Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to the use of mammalian promoters to drive recombinant expression in filamentous fungal cells. In certain aspects, the present disclosure provides an expression cassette useful for the expression of polypeptide in filamentous fungal cells. Also provided herein, are vectors and recombinant filamentous fungal cells comprising the expression cassettes of the present disclosure, and methods of making and using the same for recombinant polypeptide expression.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2012Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventor: BP Corporation North America Inc.
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Publication number: 20130109054Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to the use of plant promoters to drive recombinant expression in filamentous fungal cells. In certain aspects, the present disclosure provides an expression cassette useful for the expression of polypeptide in filamentous fungal cells. Also provided herein, are vectors and recombinant filamentous fungal cells comprising the expression cassettes of the present disclosure, and methods of making and using the same for recombinant polypeptide expression.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2012Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.Inventor: BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.
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Publication number: 20130090263Abstract: The invention is directed to polypeptides having a fluorescent activity, e.g., an auto-fluorescent activity, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, and methods for making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. The polypeptides of the invention can be used as noninvasive fluorescent markers in living cells and intact organs and animals. The polypeptides of the invention can be used as, e.g., in vivo markers/tracers of gene expression and protein localization, activity indicators, fluorescent resonance energy transfer (FRET) markers, cell lineage markers/tracers, reporters of gene expression and as markers/tracers in protein-protein interactions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: April 11, 2013Applicant: BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.Inventor: BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.
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Publication number: 20130073268Abstract: A computer system and method of automatically generating a Local Grid Refinement (LGR) gridded model of a gas reservoir. A geologic file includes information identifying the locations of one or more wells according to root grid cells within a volume of the earth to be modeled. User inputs specify the number of hydraulic fractures from each well, and such parameters as the fracture length, etc. User inputs also specify the number of “splits” of the root grid cells containing hydraulic fractures; those root grid cells are then split into finer resolution grid cells of increasing width within the root grid cells containing the fractures. For horizontal wells, user inputs indicate the number of splits of root grid cells containing the lateral portions of the wellbore. Non-orthogonal and complex fractures are processed by a “nested” LGR approach.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2012Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.Inventor: BP Corporation North America Inc.
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Publication number: 20130018640Abstract: The instant invention is a method for numerically propagating waves or solving wave equations on a digital computer. This invention can be used to compute highly accurate solutions to the wave equation, in fact in some cases it computes the analytical solution, something previously considered impossible. The instant method can also propagate waves that are not described by differential equations, such as anisotropic scalar waves. The invention has the advantages that it is computationally efficient, accurate, and flexible. Of importance is the ability to propagate waves that simulate the P-wave arrivals in both isotropic and anisotropic media with a scalar as opposed to a vector equation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.Inventor: BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.,