Patents by Inventor Gilbert Alibert

Gilbert Alibert 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).

  • Patent number: 5942659
    Abstract: A process for producing fatty acids or fatty acid derivatives from oleaginous plants. This process is characterized in that transgenic oleaginous plants are produced having on the one hand at least one gene coding for a lipase enzyme, the so-called lipase gene, and on the other hand, associated with this lipase gene, a promoter permitting an expression of the gene either in compartments different from the lipid accumulation compartments, or by exogenous induction. The seeds or fruits containing the plant lipids are collected, the seeds or fruits are crushed, if necessary after induction treatment, so as to bring the lipids and lipase into contact, the whole mixture is incubated in order to effect an enzymatic hydrolysis of the lipids, and the fatty acids or derivatives thereof are extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (I.N.P.T.)
    Inventors: Gilbert Alibert, Zephirin Mouloungui, Alain Boudet