Patents by Inventor Debra Inglis

Debra Inglis 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 reducing methoxypyrazines in grapes and grape products
    Patent number: 8859026
    Abstract: The present application described a method of reducing methoxypyrazines (MPs) in grapes or grape products comprising: (a) contacting the grape or grape product with a protein that binds to MPs at a pH of about 3 to about 4 to form a protein-MP complex; and (b) removing the protein-MP complex from the grape or grape product. Also described is a method of removing MPs from samples comprising contacting the sample with a polyethersulfone membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Brock University
    Inventors: Debra Inglis, Ai Lin Beh, Ian David Brindle, Gary Pickering, Eric Fabian Humes
  • Modulating urea degradation in wine yeast
    Patent number: 8187859
    Abstract: The invention provides yeast strains transformed to reduce nitrogen catabolite repression of a gene encoding a urea degrading enzymatic activity expressed by the yeast strain under fermenting conditions. Strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are for example provided having enhanced DUR1,2 urea carboxylase-allophanate hydrolase activity under wine fermenting conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: The University of British Columbia
    Inventors: Hendrik Jurgens Jansen Van Vuuren, Aline Lonvaud, Joana Coulon, Debra Inglis
  • METHOD FOR REDUCING METHOXYPYRAZINES IN GRAPES AND GRAPE PRODUCTS
    Publication number: 20120107467
    Abstract: The present application described a method of reducing methoxypyrazines (MPs) in grapes or grape products comprising: (a) contacting the grape or grape product with a protein that binds to MPs at a pH of about 3 to about 4 to form a protein-MP complex; and (b) removing the protein-MP complex from the grape or grape product. Also described is a method of removing MPs from samples comprising contacting the sample with a polyethersulfone membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: BROCK UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Debra Inglis, Ai Lin Beh, Ian David Brindle, Gary Pickering, Eric Fabian Humes
  • Modulating urea degradation in wine yeast
    Publication number: 20050069885
    Abstract: The invention provides yeast strains transformed to reduce nitrogen catabolite repression of a gene encoding a urea degrading enzymatic activity expressed by the yeast strain under fermenting conditions. Strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are for example provided having enhanced DUR1,2 urea carboxylase-allophanate hydrolase activity under wine fermenting conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Inventors: Hendrik Van Vuuren, Aline Lonvaud, Joana Coulon, Debra Inglis