Patents by Inventor Brett McBrayer

Brett McBrayer 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).

  • Methods For Enhancing The Degradation Or Conversion Of Cellulosic Material
    Publication number: 20170198319
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for degrading or converting a cellulosic material and for producing substances from the cellulosic material under high temperature conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Tarana Shaghasi, Brett McBrayer
  • Polypeptides having beta-xylosidase activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 9695433
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having beta-xylosidase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Novozymes Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Lan Tang, Brett McBrayer
  • Enzyme Compositions and Uses Thereof
    Publication number: 20170166939
    Abstract: The present invention relates to enzyme compositions and methods of producing and using the compositions for the saccharification of lignocellulosic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Paul Harris, Suchindra Maiyuran, Brett McBrayer, Gloria Muzzi-Erichsen
  • Methods of increasing the cellulolytic enhancing activity of a polypeptide
    Patent number: 9677060
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of increasing the activity of a GH61 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity, comprising: adding a divalent copper cation to a composition comprising the GH61 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity, wherein the presence of the divalent copper cation and the GH61 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity increases degradation or conversion of a cellulosic material by an enzyme composition compared to the GH61 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity without the divalent copper cation. The present invention also relates to compositions, methods for degrading or converting a cellulosic material, and methods for producing a fermentation product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignees: Novozymes A/S, Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Katja Salomon Johansen, Feng Xu, Paul Walton, Brett McBrayer, Henrik Lund, Chee-Leong Soong
  • cellulolytic enzyme compositions and uses thereof
    Patent number: 9663772
    Abstract: The present invention relates to recombinant Trichoderma host cells producing Aspergillus fumigatus cellulolytic enzyme compositions and methods of producing and using the compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Shasky, Brett McBrayer
  • Compositions for saccharification of cellulosic material
    Publication number: 20170145457
    Abstract: The present invention relates to enzyme compositions for high temperature saccharification of cellulosic material and to uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Brett McBrayer, Tarana Shaghasi, Elena Vlasenko
  • Polypeptides Having Xylanase Activity And Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20170145397
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase activity, catalytic domains, carbohydrate binding modules and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding modules. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Brett McBrayer, Nikolaj Spodsberg
  • Polypeptides having Xylanase Activity and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20170145395
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Elena Vlasenko, Brett McBrayer, Dominique Skovlund, Sara Landvik
  • Methods for enhancing the degradation or conversion of cellulosic material
    Patent number: 9624518
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for degrading or converting a cellulosic material and for producing substances from the cellulosic material under high temperature conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Tarana Shaghasi, Brett McBrayer
  • Compositions for saccharification of cellulosic material
    Patent number: 9587262
    Abstract: The present invention relates to enzyme compositions for high temperature saccharification of cellulosic material and to uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Brett McBrayer, Tarana Shaghasi, Elena Vlasenko
  • Polypeptides Having Cellobiohydrolase Activity and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20170037389
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity, catalytic domains, and cellulose binding domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains, and cellulose binding domains. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains, or cellulose binding domains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicants: NOVOZYMES A/S, NOVOZYMES, INC.
    Inventors: Mary Ann Stringer, Brett McBrayer
  • Polypeptides having xylanase activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 9556465
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase activity, catalytic domains, carbohydrate binding modules and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding modules. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Brett McBrayer, Nikolaj Spodsberg
  • Polypeptides having xylanase activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 9534211
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignees: NOVOZYMES A/S, NOVOZYMES, INC.
    Inventors: Elena Vlasenko, Brett McBrayer, Dominique Skovlund, Sara Landvik
  • Polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 9506048
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity, catalytic domains, and cellulose binding domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains, and cellulose binding domains. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains, or cellulose binding domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignees: Novozymes, Inc., Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Mary Ann Stringer, Brett McBrayer
  • Polypeptides having Cellobiohydrolase Activity and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20160160201
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Elena Vlasenko, Brett McBrayer, Mary Stringer, Kirk Schnorr
  • Compositions for saccharification of cellulosic material
    Publication number: 20160145663
    Abstract: The present invention relates to enzyme compositions for high temperature saccharification of cellulosic material and to uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Brett McBrayer, Tarana Shaghasi, Elena Vlasenko
  • Polypeptides Having Xylanase Activity And Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20160083761
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase activity, catalytic domains, carbohydrate binding modules and encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding modules. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Brett McBrayer, Nikolaj Spodsberg
  • Polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 9267125
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES, INC.
    Inventors: Elena Vlasenko, Brett McBrayer, Mary Stringer, Kirk Schnorr
  • Cellobiohydrolase Variants and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20160046917
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cellobiohydrolase variants. 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: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Kim Borch, Kenneth Jensen, Kristian Krogh, Brett McBrayer, Peter Westh, Jeppe Kari, Johan Olsen, Trine Sorensen, Michael Windahl, Hui Xu
  • Methods of Increasing the Cellulolytic Enhancing Activity of a Polypeptide
    Publication number: 20150353907
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of increasing the activity of a GH61 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity, comprising: adding a divalent copper cation to a composition comprising the GH61 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity, wherein the presence of the divalent copper cation and the GH61 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity increases degradation or conversion of a cellulosic material by an enzyme composition compared to the GH61 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity without the divalent copper cation. The present invention also relates to compositions, methods for degrading or converting a cellulosic material, and methods for producing a fermentation product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Katja Salomon Johansen, Feng Xu, Paul Walton, Brett McBrayer, Henrik Lund, Chee-Leong Soong