Patents by Inventor Catherine Duport

Catherine Duport 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).

  • Method for enhancing the fermentative potential and growth rate of microorganisms under anaerobiosis
    Patent number: 9765344
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for enhancing the growth rate, the biomass production and/or the fermentative potential of an anaerobic microorganism, comprising the steps consisting in: (a) modifying said anaerobic microorganism by inactivating the ohrR gene, the ohrR gene product or homolog thereof; (b) culturing the modified anaerobic microorganism obtained in step (a) under low-ORP anaerobic conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventors: Jean Armengaud, Geremy Clair, Catherine Duport
  • METHOD FOR ENHANCING THE FERMENTATIVE POTENTIAL AND GROWTH RATE OF MICROORGANISMS UNDER ANAEROBIOSIS
    Publication number: 20140227749
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for enhancing the growth rate, the biomass production and/or the fermentative potential of an anaerobic microorganism, comprising the steps consisting in: (a) modifying said anaerobic microorganism by inactivating the ohrR gene, the ohrR gene product or homolog thereof; (b) culturing the modified anaerobic microorganism obtained in step (a) under low-ORP anaerobic conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicants: Universite d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux ene alt
    Inventors: Jean Armengaud, Geremy Clair, Catherine Duport
  • Nucleic acid molecules encoding delta-5,7-sterol, delta-7 reductase from arabidopsis thaliana
    Patent number: 5989881
    Abstract: A nucleic acid sequence containing a sequence coding for a protein having a delta-5,7 sterol, delta-7 reductase activity, said nucleic acid being a DNA or an RNA, production process, strains of transformed yeasts and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Hoechst Marion Roussel
    Inventors: Xavier Chenivesse, Catherine Duport, Eric Lecain, Denis Pompon
  • Arabidepsi thaliana proteins having .DELTA.-5,7-sterol-.DELTA.-7-reductase activity
    Patent number: 5965417
    Abstract: A nucleic acid sequence containing a sequence coding for a protein having a .DELTA.-5,7 sterol, .DELTA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: Roussel Uclaf
    Inventors: Xavier Chenivesse, Catherine Duport, Eric Lecain, Denis Pompon
  • .DELTA..sup.5,7 -sterol reductase from arabidopsis thaliana
    Patent number: 5759801
    Abstract: A nucleic acid sequence containing a sequence coding for a protein having a delta-5,7 sterol, delta-7 reductase activity, said nucleic acid being a DNA or an RNA, production process, strains of transformed yeasts and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Roussel Uclaf
    Inventors: Xavier Chenivesse, Catherine Duport, Eric Lecain, Denis Pompon