Patents by Inventor Jean-Paul Leonetti
Jean-Paul Leonetti 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).
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Patent number: 9181564Abstract: The present invention relates to composition and methods of producing bioenergy. More specifically, the invention relates to the use of bacterium of the genus Deinococcus and/or related genera for the modification of biomass or biomass derivatives with a view to producing bioenergy products and metabolites.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2008Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignees: DEINOVE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS), UNIVERSITE MONTPELLIER 1Inventors: Jean-Paul Leonetti, Ivan Matic, Jacques Biton, Philippe Pouletty
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Patent number: 9102926Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods of producing bioenergy products and metabolites of industrial interest from lignocellulosic biomass. More specifically, the invention describes the identification, characterization and isolation of novel bacteria having the remarkable ability to transform lignocellulosic biomass into fermentable sugars and, even more remarkably, into bioenergy products and metabolites. The invention also discloses a method to isolate such bacteria, compositions comprising such bacteria, and their uses for the modification of lignocellulosic biomass, with a view to producing bioenergy.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2010Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignees: DEINOVE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUEInventors: Cathy Isop, Pascale Joesph, Jean-Paul Leonetti, Jacques Biton
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Patent number: 9068161Abstract: The present invention relates to novel enzymes and the uses thereof. The invention also relates to methods of producing such enzymes, coding nucleic acid molecules, recombinant cells and methods of modifying biomass from such materials. The invention is particularly suited to degrade biomass and/or to improve biomass degradation. The invention also relates to various applications of the enzymes of the invention for the production of bioenergy (such as bioethanol), as well as in the field of chemistry, paper industry, textile industry and beverage industry.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: DEINOVEInventors: Jean-Paul Leonetti, Jean-Michel Claverie, Nicolas Chabot
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Patent number: 9005954Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods to identify novel bacteria and metabolites derived therefrom. More specifically, the invention describes a novel method to isolate bacteria producing metabolites of interest from environmental samples. Particularly, the invention discloses a method to select rare antibiotic producing bacteria. The invention can be used from any sample and allows the isolation of bacteria having e.g., pharmaceutical or agrochemical interest.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2010Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignees: Deinove, Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueInventors: Jean-Paul Leonetti, Stéphanie Texier
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Publication number: 20150010671Abstract: The present invention relates to ingredients for animal feed compositions for enhancing animal growth and/or animal health. The invention also relates to methods for producing such ingredients and feed compositions. The methods of the invention further allow improving the palatableness and/or digestibility of feed compositions. More specifically, the invention describes the use of a mix of Deinococcus or related bacteria and biomass as a supply of organic constituents in feed compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2012Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Laure Gaufres, Patrick Hivin, Michael Krel, Jean-Paul Leonetti
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Publication number: 20140356923Abstract: The present invention relates to recombinant bacteria and the uses thereof, particularly for the production of ethanol. The invention also relates to methods for the production of such bacteria, as well as to nucleic acid constructs suitable for such production. The invention specifically relates to bacteria having a reconstructed biomass degradation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventor: Jean-Paul Leonetti
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Publication number: 20140349338Abstract: The present invention relates to novel bacteria and the uses thereof. The invention particularly relates to bacteria having a metabolic pathway ratio between Pentose phosphate and glycolysis greater than 0.5, and their uses in the chemical, pharmaceutical or agro-chemical industries, e.g., for producing compounds of industrial interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: DEINOVEInventors: Jean-Paul Leonetti, Juha-Pekka Pitkanen, Paula Jouhten
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Publication number: 20140017724Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods to identify novel bacteria and metabolites derived therefrom. More specifically, the invention describes a novel method to isolate bacteria producing metabolites of interest from environmental samples. Particularly, the invention discloses a method to select rare antibiotic producing bacteria. The invention can be used from any sample and allows the isolation of bacteria having e.g., pharmaceutical or agrochemical interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicants: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, DEINOVEInventors: JEAN-PAUL LEONETTI, STÉPHANIE TEXIER
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Publication number: 20130309730Abstract: The present invention relates to novel enzymes and the uses thereof. The invention also relates to methods of producing such enzymes, coding nucleic acid molecules, recombinant cells and methods of modifying biomass from such materials. The invention is particularly suited to degrade biomass and/or to improve biomass degradation. The invention also relates to various applications of the enzymes of the invention for the production of bioenergy (such as bioethanol), as well as in the field of chemistry, paper industry, textile industry and beverage industry.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2011Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: DEINOVEInventors: Jean-Paul Leonetti, Jean-Michel Claverie, Nicolas Chabot
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Publication number: 20130280786Abstract: The present invention relates to novel enzymes and the uses thereof. The invention also relates to methods of producing such enzymes, coding nucleic acid molecules, recombinant cells and methods of transforming biomass from such materials. The invention is particularly suited to degrade biomass and/or to improve biomass degradation, and to produce bioenergy products or recombinant proteins. This invention also relates to various applications of the enzymes in the field of paper industry, textile industry as well as in the chemical and medical fields.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2011Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: DEINOVEInventors: Jean-Paul Leonetti, Jean-Michel Claverie, Pascale Joseph, Lucie Roux
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Publication number: 20130045482Abstract: The present invention relates to novel bacteria and the uses thereof. The invention particularly relates to Deinococcus bacteria and their use in the pharmaceutical or agro-chemical industries, e.g., for degrading biomass and/or producing metabolites or drugs of industrial interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: February 21, 2013Applicant: DEINOVEInventors: JEAN-MICHEL CLAVERIE, Jacques Biton, Jean-Paul Leonetti
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Patent number: 8309556Abstract: The invention relates to the use of compounds derived from pyrimidinetrione of general formula (I) as acetyl cholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors. The invention also relates to the use of said compounds as insecticides, and to compositions containing the same.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2006Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite de Montpellier 2Inventors: Mylene Weill, Philippe Fort, Jean-Paul Leonetti
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Publication number: 20110306085Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods of producing bioenergy products and metabolites of industrial interest from lignocellulosic biomass. More specifically, the invention describes the identification, characterization and isolation of novel bacteria having the remarkable ability to transform lignocellulosic biomass into fermentable sugars and, even more remarkably, into bioenergy products and metabolites. The invention also discloses a method to isolate such bacteria, compositions comprising such bacteria, and their uses for the modification of lignocellulosic biomass, with a view to producing bioenergy.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2010Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicants: Centre National De La recherche Scientifique,, DEINOVEInventors: Cathy Isop, Pascale Joesph, Jean-Paul Leonetti, Jacques Biton
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Publication number: 20110294979Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods to identify novel bacteria and metabolites derived therefrom. More specifically, the invention describes a novel method to isolate bacteria producing metabolites of interest from environmental samples. Particularly, the invention discloses a method to select rare antibiotic producing bacteria. The invention can be used from any sample and allows the isolation of bacteria having e.g., pharmaceutical or agrochemical interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2010Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicants: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, DEINOVEInventors: Jean-Paul Leonetti, Stephanie Texier
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Publication number: 20110104766Abstract: The present invention relates to composition and methods of producing bioenergy. More specifically, the invention relates to the use of bacterium of the genus Deinococcus and/or related genera for the modification of biomass or biomass derivatives with a view to producing bioenergy products and metabolites.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2008Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicants: DEINOVE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUEInventors: Jean-Paul Leonetti, Ivan Matic
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Publication number: 20110046154Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a compound selected from an aminopeptidase-inhibiting compound and an azaindole compound for producing a drug for preventing or treating cancerous metastases in humans or animals.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2009Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUEInventors: Pierre Roux, Marion De Toledo, Jean-Paul Leonetti, Christelle Anguille
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Publication number: 20100227935Abstract: The present invention relates to a new class of terpene-derived compounds having an antibiotic activity and of the formulae (I) or (II) in which A is selected from NR1, O, S, CR2R3 or R—(CH2)n—R?, wherein R and R? represent independently NH, O, S or CH2, and in which R1, R2 et R3 are substituents and n is higher than or equal to 1, in particular equal to 2. The invention relates to the compound according to both the formula (I) or the formula (II) taken individually, to mixtures of the two compounds, and to compositions, mainly therapeutic ones, comprising at least one of the compounds or said mixture. According to a particular embodiment, the compound ((I) or (II) taken individually, the mixtures of both compounds and the compositions of the invention are used in the treatment of difficult C-related digestive infections. In one particular embodiment, the compound of the formula (I) is margaucine, a compound produced by a bacterial stem.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2007Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicants: Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, Universite De Provence-Aix-Marseille 1, Universite Paul Cezanne-Aix-Marseille 3Inventors: Jean-Paul Leonetti, Maxime Gualtieri, Laurence Coulibeuf, Gaëtan Herbette
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Publication number: 20080269252Abstract: The invention relates to the use of compounds derived from pyrimidinetrione of general formula (I) as acetyl cholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors. The invention also relates to the use of said compounds as insecticides, and to compositions containing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2006Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicants: CENTRAL NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER 2Inventors: Mylene Weill, Philippe Fort, Jean-Paul Leonetti
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Publication number: 20040048283Abstract: A method for detecting a compound modulating complexing between RNA polymerase and a protein intervening during transcription, which consists in: incubating a mixture comprising RNA polymerase intervening during transcription and the compound to be detected; detecting, by a complexing test, the possible significant variation of the amount of complex formed between RNA polymerase and the protein relative to a control value corresponding to the amount of complex formed between RNA polymerase and the protein in the absence of any modulator; and deducing therefrom, when there is a significant variation as defined above, that there has been formation of a bond between the compound and RNA polymerase and/or the protein intervening during transcription, which results in a modulation of the complexing between RNA polymerase and the protein intervening during transcription.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2003Publication date: March 11, 2004Inventors: Bernard Pau, Jean-Paul Leonetti, Joelle Rouby