Patents by Inventor Donald Finlay MacLennan

Donald Finlay MacLennan 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 for preparing nutritional, therapeutic or organoleptic products from crude glycerol
    Patent number: 8802408
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a nutritional, therapeutic or organoleptic product by growing non-recombinant yeast under aerobic conditions, in a medium that includes crude glycerol, as one possible carbon source to produce a yeast product. The yeast product can be processed to obtain such nutritional, therapeutic or organoleptic products as yeast paste, yeast metabolites, carbohydrates, proteins, functional proteins, nucleotides, yeast autolysates, yeast extract, yeast cell walls, beta-glucans, mannans or a product derived from a mineralized yeast product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Bio Processing Australia Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Robin Fieldhouse, Donald Finlay MacLennan, David Graham MacLennan, Mary Elizabeth MacLennan
  • PROCESS FOR PREPARING NUTRITIONAL, THERAPEUTIC OR ORGANOLEPTIC PRODUCTS FROM CRUDE GLYCEROL
    Publication number: 20110044972
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a nutritional, therapeutic or organoleptic product by growing non-recombinant yeast under aerobic conditions, in a medium that includes crude glycerol, as one possible carbon source to produce a yeast product. The yeast product can be processed to obtain such nutritional, therapeutic or organoleptic products as yeast paste, yeast metabolites, carbohydrates, proteins, functional proteins, nucleotides, yeast autolysates, yeast extract, yeast cell walls, beta-glucans, mannans or a product derived from a mineralized yeast product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: BIO PROCESSING AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.
    Inventors: Robin Fieldhouse, Donald Finlay MacLennan, David Graham MacLennan, Mary Elizabeth MacLennan