Patents by Inventor Jean Armengaud

Jean Armengaud 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 of deconvolution of mixed molecular information in a complex sample to identify organism(s)
    Patent number: 11177017
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods to determine the identity of one or more organisms present in a sample (if these are already reported in a taxonomic database) or the identity of the closest related organism reported in a taxonomic database. The present invention does this by comparing a data set acquired by analyzing at least one component of the biological sample to a database, so as to match each component of the analyzed content of the sample to one or more taxon(s) and then collating the phylogenetic distance between each taxa and the taxon with the highest number of matches in the data set. A deconvolution function is then generated for the taxon with the highest number of matches, based on a correlation curve between the number of matches per taxon (Y axis) and the phylogenetic distance (X axis), the outcome of this function providing the identity of the organism or the closest known organism to it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Olivier Pible, Jean Armengaud, François Allain
  • Method for enhancing the fermentative potential and growth rate of microorganisms under anaerobiosis
    Patent number: 9765344
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for enhancing the growth rate, the biomass production and/or the fermentative potential of an anaerobic microorganism, comprising the steps consisting in: (a) modifying said anaerobic microorganism by inactivating the ohrR gene, the ohrR gene product or homolog thereof; (b) culturing the modified anaerobic microorganism obtained in step (a) under low-ORP anaerobic conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventors: Jean Armengaud, Geremy Clair, Catherine Duport
  • Method of Deconvolution of Mixed Molecular Information in a Complex Sample to Identify Organism(s)
    Publication number: 20160300011
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods to determine the identity of one or more organisms present in a sample (if these are already reported in a taxonomic database) or the identity of the closest related organism reported in a taxonomic database. The present invention does this by comparing a data set acquired by analysing at least one component of the biological sample to a database, so as to match each component of the analysed content of the sample to one or more taxon(s) and then collating the phylo-genetic distance between each taxa and the taxon with the highest number of matches in the data set. A deconvolution function is then generated for the taxon with the highest number of matches, based on a correlation curve between the number of matches per taxon (Y axis) and said phylogenetic distance (X axis), the outcome of this function providing the identity of the organism or the closest known organism to it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Olivier Pible, Jean Armengaud, François Allain
  • METHOD FOR ENHANCING THE FERMENTATIVE POTENTIAL AND GROWTH RATE OF MICROORGANISMS UNDER ANAEROBIOSIS
    Publication number: 20140227749
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for enhancing the growth rate, the biomass production and/or the fermentative potential of an anaerobic microorganism, comprising the steps consisting in: (a) modifying said anaerobic microorganism by inactivating the ohrR gene, the ohrR gene product or homolog thereof; (b) culturing the modified anaerobic microorganism obtained in step (a) under low-ORP anaerobic conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicants: Universite d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux ene alt
    Inventors: Jean Armengaud, Geremy Clair, Catherine Duport