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).

  • Processes for Producing Fermentation Products
    Publication number: 20110097779
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing a fermentation product from gelatinized and/or un-gelatinized starch-containing material using a metallo protease, and processes for producing a fermentation product from gelatinized starch-containing material using a metallo protease and a pullulanase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventors: Chee-Leong Soong, Peter Rahbek, Shiro Fukuyama, Jiyin Liu, Randy Deinhammer, Martin Simon Borchert, Suzanne Clark
  • Producing Fermentation Products in the Presence of Aldehyde Dehydrogenase
    Publication number: 20110053237
    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 aldehyde dehydrogenases are present in the fermentation medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Chee-Leong Soong, Jiyin Liu
  • Polypeptides having glucoamylase activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 7871800
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having glucoamylase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding said polypeptides preferably derived from a strain of Peniphora rufomarginata. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides. The invention also relates to the composition comprising a glucoamylase of the invention as well as the use such compositions for starch conversion processes, brewing, including processes for producing fermentation products or syrups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignees: Novozymes A/S, Novozymes North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Sara Landvik, Jiyin Liu, Carsten Horslev Hansen, Chee Leong Soong, Jeppe Wegener Tams
  • Processes Of Producing Fermentation Products
    Publication number: 20100279371
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process of fermenting plant material in a fermentation medium into a fermentation product using a fermenting organism, wherein increased levels of one or more pyrophosphatase enzymes are present in the fermentation medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Novozymes North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Chee-Leong Soong, Jiyin Liu, Zhengfang Kang
  • Processes of Producing Fermentation Products
    Publication number: 20100216201
    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: October 20, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: Novozymes North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Chee-Leong Soong, Jiyin Liu, Guillermo Coward-Kelly
  • Polypeptides Having Glucoamylase Activity and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20100216213
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having glucoamylase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding said polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides. The invention also relates to the composition comprising a glucoamylase of the invention as well as the use such compositions for starch conversion processes, brewing, including processes for producing fermentation products or syrups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicants: NOVOZYMES A/S, NOVOZYMES NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Udagawa, Sara Landvik, Michiko Ihara, Jiyin Liu, Chee Leong Soong, Eric Allain, Shiro Fukuyama
  • POLYPEPTIDES HAVING GLUCOAMYLASE ACTIVITY AND POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING SAME
    Publication number: 20100120108
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having glucoamylase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding said polypeptides preferably derived from a strain of Peniphora rufomarginata. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides. The invention also relates to the composition comprising a glucoamylase of the invention as well as the use such compositions for starch conversion processes, brewing, including processes for producing fermentation products or syrups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicants: Novozymes A/S, Novozymes North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Sara Landvik, Jiyin Liu, Carsten Horslev Hansen, Chee Leong Soong, Jeppe Wegener Tams
  • Process of Producing a Fermentation Product
    Publication number: 20100112653
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing a fermentation product from starch-containing material comprising: (a) saccharifying starch-containing material with an alpha-amylase at a temperature below the initial gelatinization temperature of said starch-containing material; (b) fermenting using a fermenting organism, wherein a phytase is present during steps (a) and/or (b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Jiyin Liu, Chee-Leong Soong
  • Processes for Producing a Fermentation Product
    Publication number: 20080318284
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing a fermentation product comprising (a) saccharifying starch-containing material below the initial gelatinization temperature in the presence of i) from 0.001-50 AGU/g DS, preferably 0.01 to 10 AGU/g DS alpha-glucosidase activity more than the native amount of endogenous alpha-glucosidase present in the starch-containing material, and ii) from 0 (zero) to 10 FAU-F/g DS of alpha-amylase activity, and (b) fermenting using a fermenting organism. The invention also relates to an enzymatic composition for use in a process of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Novozymes North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Chee Leong Soong, Shiro Fukuyama, Jiyin Liu
  • DETOXIFYING PRE-TREATED LIGNOCELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS
    Publication number: 20080171370
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process of detoxifying pretreated lignocellulose-containing maternal by subjecting pre-treated material to a detoxifying compound capable of binding 1) pre-treated lignocellulose degradation products and/or 2) acetic acid. The detoxifying compound may also be an amidase and/or and anhydrase. The invention also relates to a process of producing a fermentation product including a detoxification process of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Applicant: Novozymes North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason W. Holmes, Randy Deinhammer, Chee Leong Soong
  • PROCESSES OF PRODUCING FERMENTATION PRODUCTS
    Publication number: 20080145903
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process of fermenting plant material into a fermentation product using a fermenting organism, wherein one or more phytohormones are present during fermentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicants: Novozymes North America, Inc., Novozymes Biologicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason W. Holmes, Randy Deinhammer, Chee Leong Soong, Shawn Wayne Semones, Frank Kwesi Agbogbo
  • POLYPEPTIDES HAVING GLUCOAMYLASE ACTIVITY AND POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING SAME
    Publication number: 20080090271
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having glucoamylase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding said polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides. The invention also relates to the composition comprising a glucoamylase of the invention as well as the use such compositions for starch conversion processes, brewing, including processes for producing fermentation products or syrups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicants: Novozymes A/S, Novozymes North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Udagawa, Sara Landvik, Michiko Ihara, Jiyin Liu, Chee-Leong Soong, Eric Allain, Shiro Fukuyama
  • Polypeptides having glucoamylase activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 7326548
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having glucoamylase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding said polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides. The invention also relates to the composition comprising a glucoamylase of the invention as well as the use such compositions for starch conversion processes, brewing, including processes for producing fermentation products or syrups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignees: Novozymes Als, Novezymes Noth America, Inc
    Inventors: Hiroaki Udagawa, Sara Landvik, Michiko Ihara, Jiyin Liu, Chee Leong Soong, Eric Allain, Shiro Fukuyama