Patents by Inventor Chee Leong Soong

Chee Leong Soong 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).

  • PROCESS OF EXTRACTING OIL FROM THIN STILLAGE
    Publication number: 20180371439
    Abstract: A process of recovering oil, comprising (a) converting a starch-containing material into dextrins with an alpha-amylase; (b) saccharifying the dextrins using a carbohydrate source generating enzyme to form a sugar; (c) fermenting the sugar in a fermentation medium into a fermentation product using a fermenting organism; (d) recovering the fermentation product to form a whole stillage; (e) separating the whole stillage into thin stillage and wet cake; (e?) optionally concentrating the thin stillage into syrup; (f) recovering oil from the thin stillage and/or optionally the syrup, wherein a protease and a phospholipase are present and/or added during steps (a) to (c). Use of a protease and a phospholipase for increasing oil recovery yields from thin stillage and/or syrup in a fermentation product production process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Joseph Jump, Nathaniel Edward Kreel, Bernardo Vidal, Jr., Chee-Leong Soong, Madison Roberts, Melissa Carrie Hooss, Xinyu Shen
  • DEWATERING WHOLE STILLAGE
    Publication number: 20180346364
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods of dewatering of whole stillage derived from a fermentation product production process using yeast-degrading enzymes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventor: Chee-Leong Soong
  • Improving drainage of paper pulp
    Patent number: 10077531
    Abstract: The use of GH61 polypeptides in the treatment of pulp, for improving the freeness of the pulp, and/or for improving the short span compression strength of paper materials made from the pulp, such as paper, linerboard, corrugated paperboard, tissue, towels, corrugated containers and boxes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Brit Schroeder, Chee-Leong Soong, Gregory Clark DeLozier, Henrik Lund
  • PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING FERMENTATION PRODUCTS
    Publication number: 20180245105
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein an alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease, pullulanase and/or glucoamylase are present and/or added during liquefaction, wherein a cellulolytic composition is present and/or added during fermentation or simultaneous saccharification and fermentation. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Randall Deinhammer, Joyce Craig, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi, Suzanne Clark, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee-Leong Soong, Zhengfang Kang
  • PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING FERMENTATION PRODUCTS
    Publication number: 20180023099
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Randy Deinhammer, Suzanne Clark, Mauricio Quiros, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee Leong Soong, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi
  • Milling Process
    Publication number: 20170327855
    Abstract: The present invention provides process for treating crop kernels, comprising the steps of a) soaking kernels in water to produce soaked kernels; b) grinding the soaked kernels; c) treating the soaked kernels in the presence of an effective amount of an enzyme composition comprising: i) a protease, and ii) a cellulolytic composition, wherein step c) is performed before, during or after step b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Zhen Long, James Lavigne, JR., Bernardo Vidal, JR., Brian R. Scott, Randall Scott Deinhammer, Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Chee-Leong Soong, Yi Cao, Yu Zhang
  • Processes for producing fermentation products
    Patent number: 9816112
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Randy Deinhammer, Suzanne Clark, Mauricio Quiros, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee Leong Soong, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi
  • Enzymes for starch processing
    Patent number: 9777304
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides comprising a carbohydrate-binding module amino acid sequence and an alpha-amylase amino acid sequence as well as to the application of such polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignees: NOVOZYMES NORTH AMERICA, INC., NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Shiro Fukuyama, Tomoko Matsui, Chee Leong Soong, Eric Allain, Anders Vikso Nielsen, Hiroaki Udagawa, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Wenping Wu, Lene Nonboe Andersen
  • Enzymes for starch processing
    Patent number: 9719120
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides comprising a carbohydrate-binding module amino acid sequence and an alpha-amylase amino acid sequence as well as to the application of such polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignees: NOVOZYMES A/S, NOVOZYMES NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Shiro Fukuyama, Tomoko Matsui, Chee Leong Soong, Eric Allain, Anders Vikso Nielsen, Hiroaki Udagawa, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Wenping Wu, Lene Nonboe Andersen
  • Dough with a Lipolytic Enzyme and/or Xylanase and a Monooxygenase
    Publication number: 20170188592
    Abstract: A method for preparing a dough or a baked product prepared from the dough which method comprises incorporating into the dough a lipolytic enzyme and/or a xylanase and an X143 polypeptide, wherein the X143 polypeptide is a monooxygenase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Henrik Lundkvist, Morten Tovborg, Leonardo De Maria, Chee-Leong Soong
  • 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
  • PROCESSES OF PRODUCING FERMENTATION PRODUCTS
    Publication number: 20160237460
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process of fermenting plant material in a fermentation medium into a fermentation product using a fermenting organism, wherein one or more carbonic anhydrases are present in the fermentation medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Chee Leong Soong, Jiyin Liu, Guillermo Coward Kelly
  • Processes of producing fermentation products
    Patent number: 9359621
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process of fermenting plant material in a fermentation medium into a fermentation product using a fermenting organism, wherein one or more carbonic anhydrases are present in the fermentation medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: NOVAZYMES NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Chee-Leong Soong, Jiyin Liu, Guillermo Coward-Kelly
  • Process for Hydrolysis of Starch
    Publication number: 20160122442
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for enzymatic hydrolysis of granular starch into a soluble starch hydrolysate at a temperature below or just above the initial gelatinization temperature of said granular starch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Carsten Andersen, Paria Saunders, Signe Eskildsen Larsen, Scott R. McLaughlin, Chee Leong Soong
  • Enzymes for Starch Processing
    Publication number: 20160040205
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides comprising a carbohydrate-binding module amino acid sequence and an alpha-amylase amino acid sequence as well as to the application of such polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicants: NOVOZYMES NORTH AMERICA, INC., NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Shiro Fukuyama, Tomoko Matsui, Chee Leong Soong, Eric Allain, Anders Vikso Nielsen, Hiroaki Udagawa, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Wenping Wu, Lene Nonboe Andersen
  • 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
  • IMPROVING DRAINAGE OF PAPER PULP
    Publication number: 20150308047
    Abstract: The use of GH61 polypeptides in the treatment of pulp, for improving the freeness of the pulp, and/or for improving the short span compression strength of paper materials made from the pulp, such as paper, linerboard, corrugated paperboard, tissue, towels, corrugated containers and boxes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Brit Schroeder, Chee-Leong Soong, Gregory Clark DeLozier, Henrik Lund
  • PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING FERMENTATION PRODUCTS
    Publication number: 20150291984
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein an alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease, pullulanase and/or glucoamylase are present and/or added during liquefaction, wherein a cellulolytic composition is present and/or added during fermentation or simultaneous saccharification and fermentation. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Randall Deinhammer, Joyce Craig, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi, Suzanne Clark, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee-Leong Soong, Zhengfang Kang
  • Methods of increasing the cellulolytic enhancing activity of a polypeptide
    Patent number: 9150842
    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: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignees: NOVOZYMES A/S, NOVOZYMES, INC.
    Inventors: Katja Salomon Johansen, Feng Xu, Paul Walton, Brett McBrayer, Henrik Lund, Chee-Leong Soong
  • Method for Production of Brewers Wort
    Publication number: 20150275158
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for production of brewer's wort comprising adding to a mash, a particular glucoamylase. Furthermore, the invention relates to use of a combination of a glucoamylase and an alpha amylase for production of brewer's wort.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Hans Peter Heldt-Hansen, Chee Leong Soong