Patents by Inventor John Aiken
John Aiken 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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Publication number: 20140242688Abstract: Provided herein is a transgenic bacteria engineered to accumulate carbohydrates, for example disaccharides. Also provided is a photobioreactor for cultivating photosynthetic microorganisms comprising a non-gelatinous, solid cultivation support suitable for providing nutrients and moisture to photosynthetic microorganisms and a physical barrier covering at least a portion of the surface of the cultivation support. Devices for the large scale and continuous cultivation of photosynthetic microorganisms incorporating photobioreactors and methods of use are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of producing fermentable sugar from photosynthetic microorganisms using a photobioreactor of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: Proterro, Inc.Inventors: John Aikens, Robert J. Turner
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Patent number: 8728821Abstract: Provided herein is a transgenic bacteria engineered to accumulate carbohydrates, for example disaccharides. Also provided is a photobioreactor for cultivating photosynthetic microorganisms comprising a non-gelatinous, solid cultivation support suitable for providing nutrients and moisture to photosynthetic microorganisms and a physical barrier covering at least a portion of the surface of the cultivation support. Devices for the large scale and continuous cultivation of photosynthetic microorganisms incorporating photobioreactors and methods of use are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of producing fermentable sugar from photosynthetic microorganisms using a photobioreactor of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2013Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Proterro, Inc.Inventors: John Aikens, Robert J. Turner
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Patent number: 8728783Abstract: Provided herein is a transgenic bacteria engineered to accumulate carbohydrates, for example disaccharides. Also provided is a photobioreactor for cultivating photosynthetic microorganisms comprising a non-gelatinous, solid cultivation support suitable for providing nutrients and moisture to photosynthetic microorganisms and a physical barrier covering at least a portion of the surface of the cultivation support. Devices for the large scale and continuous cultivation of photosynthetic microorganisms incorporating photobioreactors and methods of use are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of producing fermentable sugar from photosynthetic microorganisms using a photobioreactor of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2013Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Proterro, Inc.Inventors: John Aikens, Robert J. Turner
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Patent number: 8597951Abstract: Provided herein is a transgenic bacteria engineered to accumulate carbohydrates, for example disaccharides. Also provided is a photobioreactor for cultivating photosynthetic microorganisms comprising a non-gelatinous, solid cultivation support suitable for providing nutrients and moisture to photosynthetic microorganisms and a physical barrier covering at least a portion of the surface of the cultivation support. Devices for the large scale and continuous cultivation of photosynthetic microorganisms incorporating photobioreactors and methods of use are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of producing fermentable sugar from photosynthetic microorganisms using a photobioreactor of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2013Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Proterro, Inc.Inventors: John Aikens, Robert J. Turner
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Patent number: 8597914Abstract: Provided herein is a transgenic bacteria engineered to accumulate carbohydrates, for example disaccharides. Also provided is a photobioreactor for cultivating photosynthetic microorganisms comprising a non-gelatinous, solid cultivation support suitable for providing nutrients and moisture to photosynthetic microorganisms and a physical barrier covering at least a portion of the surface of the cultivation support. Devices for the large scale and continuous cultivation of photosynthetic microorganisms incorporating photobioreactors and methods of use are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of producing fermentable sugar from photosynthetic microorganisms using a photobioreactor of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2013Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Proterro, Inc.Inventors: John Aikens, Robert J. Turner
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Patent number: 8367379Abstract: Provided herein is a transgenic bacteria engineered to accumulate carbohydrates, for example disaccharides. Also provided is a photobioreactor for cultivating photosynthetic microorganisms comprising a non-gelatinous, solid cultivation support suitable for providing nutrients and moisture to photosynthetic microorganisms and a physical barrier covering at least a portion of the surface of the cultivation support. Devices for the large scale and continuous cultivation of photosynthetic microorganisms incorporating photobioreactors and methods of use are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of producing fermentable sugar from photosynthetic microorganisms using a photobioreactor of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2009Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Proterro, Inc.Inventors: John Aikens, Robert J. Turner
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Publication number: 20120309090Abstract: A compressible bioreactor for cultivating photosynthetic microorganisms, the bioreactor comprising a feeder trough, a collection trough, a growth fabric, and a barrier layer, where the bioreactor has a compressed mode and an extended mode, the growth fabric is coupled to the feeder trough and the collection trough, the growth fabric is substantially extended in the extended mode of the bioreactor, the growth fabric is substantially compressed in the compressed mode of the bioreactor and the barrier layer is coupled to the feeder base and the collection base that encases the growth fabric in a substantially airtight environmentType: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: PROTERRO, INC.Inventors: John Aikens, Robert J. Turner, Denise L. Holzle
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Publication number: 20120301563Abstract: Provided herein are methods of producing and processing a feedstock from a photosynthetic microorganism. Also provided are various transgenic photosynthetic microorganism and photobioreactors for use in the methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: PROTERRO, INC.Inventors: John Aikens, Robert J. Turner
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Publication number: 20120244622Abstract: Compositions and methods for nitrogen sensitive regulation of expression of a transcribable nucleic acid molecule. One aspect provides a nitrogen-sensitive expression system that includes a transcription factor region comprising an NtcA binding site and a core promoter region comprising a RuBisCo promoter or a variant or a functional fragment thereof. Another aspect provides a method of transforming a host cell with an expression system. Also provided are expression cassettes, transformed host cells, and kits.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: PROTERRO, INC.Inventors: Robert J. Turner, Valerie Sershon, John Aikens, Denise Holzle
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Publication number: 20120142621Abstract: A microbial ethyl esther sophorolipid derivative with no acetylated groups produced by Candida species, for treating and preventing sepsis/septic shock. The method of producing sophorolipids is through microbial resting cells of Candida bombicola. The sophorolipids obtained from resting state cultures are isolated as a complex mixture of compounds and then decanted as a dense oil from the culture broth, subsequently washed to remove free fatty acids. Secondary chemical transformation via base catalyzed hydrolysis is used to reduce the 8 possible structural sophorolipid species to a single moiety, the 17-L-[(2?-O-b-D-glucopyranosyl-b-D-glucopyranosyl)-oxy]-cis-9-octadecenoate de-acetylated free acid. The compound acts primarily through decreasing inflammatory cytokines and eliciting other synergistic anti-inflammatory mechanisms by blocking TLR4-CD14 upstream of the inflammatory signaling cascade.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2011Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: Biomedica Management CorporationInventors: George Falus, Maja Nowakowski, Martin Bluth, John Aikens
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Publication number: 20090181434Abstract: Provided herein is a transgenic bacteria engineered to accumulate carbohydrates, for example disaccharides. Also provided is a photobioreactor for cultivating photosynthetic microorganisms comprising a non-gelatinous, solid cultivation support suitable for providing nutrients and moisture to photosynthetic microorganisms and a physical barrier covering at least a portion of the surface of the cultivation support. Devices for the large scale and continuous cultivation of photosynthetic microorganisms incorporating photobioreactors and methods of use are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of producing fermentable sugar from photosynthetic microorganisms using a photobioreactor of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2009Publication date: July 16, 2009Applicant: PROTERRO, INC.Inventors: John Aikens, Robert J. Turner
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Patent number: 7552643Abstract: A device for monitoring gas effusing from a pipe, the device comprising a mounting assembly having an upper and lower bracket; a housing located on the upper bracket; the bottom of the housing is of a shape complementary to the pipe being monitored; a probe assembly; a bore in the housing for receiving the probe assembly; the probe assembly comprising: a probe insert; a chamber for collecting gas in the bottom of the probe insert formed by side walls and an upper wall; a compressible sealing means in the bottom of the side walls for sealingly engaging the outer surface of the pipe to be monitored; a passageway in the probe insert, extending from an outlet at the top surface of the probe insert to an inlet in the upper wall of the chamber, such that the passageway is in flow communication with the chamber; a tube receivable through the outlet of the passageway; a plate removably connected to the housing for, securing the probe assembly in place; the plate comprising a biasing means for compressing the sealingType: GrantFiled: December 10, 2007Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: Centre For Nuclear Energy Research (CNER)Inventor: John Aikens
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Publication number: 20080148862Abstract: A device for monitoring gas effusing from a pipe, the device comprising a mounting assembly having an upper and lower bracket; a housing located on the upper bracket; the bottom of the housing is of a shape complementary to the pipe being monitored; a probe assembly; a bore in the housing for receiving the probe assembly; the probe assembly comprising: a probe insert; a chamber for collecting gas in the bottom of the probe insert formed by side walls and an upper wall; a compressible sealing means in the bottom of the side walls for sealingly engaging the outer surface of the pipe to be monitored; a passageway in the probe insert, extending from an outlet at the top surface of the probe insert to an inlet in the upper wall of the chamber, such that the passageway is in flow communication with the chamber; a tube receivable through the outlet of the passageway; a plate removably connected to the housing for, securing the probe assembly in place; the plate comprising a biasing means for compressing the sealingType: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Inventor: John Aikens
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Publication number: 20080017224Abstract: Compositions or products containing ionic liquids and methods of using the same are also disclosed. Specifically, ionic liquids suitable for use in fabric, hard surface or air treating compositions are disclosed. Also disclosed are ionic liquid cocktails comprising three or more different and charged ionic liquid components.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2007Publication date: January 24, 2008Inventors: Kenneth Price, Richard Hartshorn, Robert Rohrbaugh, William Scheper, Michael Showell, Keith Baker, Mark Sivik, Jeffrey Schrible, Robb Gardner, Pramod Reddy, John Aiken, Michael Addison
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Publication number: 20070261294Abstract: Biodiesel fuels are produced efficiently and at low cost from waste oil feeds containing high concentrations of fatty acids. By first producing an ester of a water immiscible alcohol, water of reaction from the esterification can be easily stripped out with and separated from the alcohol, which is recycled to the esterification reaction. Subsequent transesterification with glycerin produces a feed with a sufficiently low acid value to allow methanolysis using a basic catalyst to proceed rapidly without consumption of large quantities of catalyst or organic acid salt formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2006Publication date: November 15, 2007Inventor: John Aiken
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Publication number: 20070149436Abstract: Water-soluble copolymers which comprise, in copolymerized form, (a) 60 to 99% by weight of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated polyalkylene oxide monomer of the formula I H2C?CR1—X—YR2—OnR3 ??I ?in which the variables have the following meanings: ?X is —CH2— or —C(O)—, if Y is —O—; is —C(O)—, if Y is —NH—; is —O— or —O—(CH2)4—, if Y is a chemical bond; ?Y is —O—, —NH— or a chemical bond; ?R1 is hydrogen or methyl; ?R2 is C2-C4-alkylene radicals, which may be identical or different and also linear or branched, but where at least 50% of the radicals R2 are ethylene; ?R3 is C1-C22-alkyl, phenyl, p-(C1-C12-alkyl)phenyl or hydrogen; ?n is an integer from 6 to 50, (b) 1 to 40% by weight of at least one nonquaternized dipolar monomer comprising at least one nitrogen atom, (c) 0 to 39% by weight of other nonionic monoethylenically unsaturated monomers and (d) 0 to 10% by weight of other anionic monoethylenically unsaturated monomers and have an average molecular weight Mw of from 2000 to 500 00Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2004Publication date: June 28, 2007Applicant: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Dieter Boeckh, Thomas Pfeiffer, Stefan Becker, Marcus Guzmann, Pramod Reddy, John Aiken
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Publication number: 20060240727Abstract: Compositions or products containing ionic liquids and methods of using the same are also disclosed. Specifically, ionic liquids suitable for use in fabric, hard surface or air treating compositions are disclosed. Also disclosed are ionic liquid cocktails comprising three or more different and charged ionic liquid components.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2006Publication date: October 26, 2006Inventors: Kenneth Price, Richard Hartshorn, Robert Rohrbaugh, William Scheper, Michael Showell, Keith Baker, Mark Sivik, Jeffrey Scheibel, Robb Gardner, Pramod Reddy, John Aiken, Michael Addison
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Publication number: 20060240728Abstract: Compositions or products containing ionic liquids and methods of using the same are also disclosed. Specifically, ionic liquids suitable for use in fabric, hard surface or air treating compositions are disclosed. Also disclosed are ionic liquid cocktails comprising three or more different and charged ionic liquid components.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2006Publication date: October 26, 2006Inventors: Kenneth Price, Richard Hartshorn, Robert Rohrbaugh, William Scheper, Michael Showell, Keith Baker, Mark Sivik, Jeffrey Scheibel, Robb Gardner, Pramond Reddy, John Aiken, Michael Addison
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Patent number: D707418Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2013Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: McCain Foods LimitedInventors: David M. Rogers, John Aikens
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Patent number: D712618Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2013Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: McCain Foods LimitedInventors: David M. Rogers, John Aikens