Patents by Inventor Gary Pigeau

Gary Pigeau 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).

  • Publication number: 20210115383
    Abstract: In an aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method for approximating product production in a bioreactor. The method comprises: providing a bioreactor containing live cells in a substrate, the bioreactor for cultivating, over a time period, a product derived from or of the cells during a manufacturing process; providing two or more sensors for measuring respective two or more different physical attributes of the substrate during the time period; receiving, at a processor, sensor data from the two or more sensors; and determining via the processor, based on a predetermined or recursive algorithm that correlates the sensor data and the product production by independent consideration of the sensor data of the two or more different physical attributes or by multivariate consideration of the sensor data of the two or more different physical attributes, an approximate amount of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Shuohao Huang, Gary Pigeau, Azher Razvi
  • Patent number: 8936929
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel xylose-fermenting yeast strains (for example, yeast of the genus Saccharomyces, e.g., S. cerevisiae) with an enhanced ability to ferment the xylose (and/or another pentose sugar) present in a lignocellulosic hydrolysate to a fermentation product(s) (for example, an alcohol (e.g., ethanol) or a sugar alcohol (e.g., xylitol)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Iogen Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Jennifer Donaldson, Jan-Maarten A. Geertman, Glenn D. Munkvold, Gary Pigeau, Philippe J. Dufresne, Loreta Gudynaite-Savitch
  • Publication number: 20140030795
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel xylose-fermenting yeast strains (for example, yeast of the genus Saccharomyces, e.g., S. cerevisiae) with an enhanced ability to ferment the xylose (and/or another pentose sugar) present in a lignocellulosic hydrolysate to a fermentation product(s) (for example, an alcohol (e.g., ethanol) or a sugar alcohol (e.g., xylitol)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: IOGEN ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jennifer Donaldson, Jan-Maarten A. Geertman, Glenn D. Munkvold, Gary Pigeau, Philippe J. Dufresne, Loreta Gudynaite-Savitch
  • Patent number: 8603788
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel xylose-fermenting yeast strains (for example, yeast of the genus Saccharomyces, e.g., S. cerevisiae) with an enhanced ability to ferment the xylose (and/or another pentose sugar) present in a lignocellulosic hydrolysate to a fermentation product(s) (for example, an alcohol (e.g., ethanol) or a sugar alcohol (e.g., xylitol)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Iogen Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Jennifer Donaldson, Jan-Maarten A. Geertman, Glenn D. Munkvold, Gary Pigeau, Philippe J. Dufresne, Loreta Gudynaite-Savitch
  • Publication number: 20110159560
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel xylose-fermenting yeast strains (for example, yeast of the genus Saccharomyces, e.g., S. cerevisiae) with an enhanced ability to ferment the xylose (and/or another pentose sugar) present in a lignocellulosic hydrolysate to a fermentation product(s) (for example, an alcohol (e.g., ethanol) or a sugar alcohol (e.g., xylitol)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: IOGEN ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jennifer Donaldson, Jan-Maarten A. Geertman, Glenn D. Munkvold, Gary Pigeau, Philippe J. Dufresne, Loreta Gudynaite-Savitch