Patents by Inventor Junxin Duan

Junxin Duan 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: 20180298362
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Junxin Duan, Lan Tang
  • Publication number: 20180273924
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having alpha-amylase activity, catalytic domains, carbohydrate binding domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding domains. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding domains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Tianqi Sun, Ming Li, Junxin Duan
  • Patent number: 10066251
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having catalase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Novozymes Inc.
    Inventors: Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Yu Zhang, Lan Tang
  • Patent number: 10066237
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having beta-xylosidase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Novozymes Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Lan Tang, Brett McBrayer
  • Patent number: 10059933
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Novozymes Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Lan Tang
  • Patent number: 10017753
    Abstract: The present invention provides isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also provides nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Junxin Duan, Lan Tang
  • Patent number: 10006015
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having beta-xylosidase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Ye Liu, Lan Tang, Yu Zhang, Junxin Duan
  • Patent number: 9994834
    Abstract: Provided are isolated polypeptides having alpha-amylase activity, catalytic domains, carbohydrate binding domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding domains. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs, vectors and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Tianqi Sun, Ming Li, Junxin Duan
  • Publication number: 20180148702
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: Novozymes Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Lan Tang
  • Patent number: 9938512
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an isolated polynucleotide comprising an open reading frame encoding a polypeptide having alpha-amylase activity, the polypeptide selected from the group consisting of: a) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence which has at least 70% identity with amino acids 22 to 450 of SEQ ID NO: 4; b) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence which has at least 70% identity with the polypeptide encoded by the amylase encoding part of the polynucleotide inserted into a plasmid present in the E. coli host deposited under the Budapest Treaty with DSMZ under accession number DSM 15334; c) a polypeptide encoded by a polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence which has at least 70% identity with the sequence shown from position 68 to 1417 in SEQ ID NO: 3; and d) a fragment of (a), (b) or (c) that has alpha-amylase activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Lan Tang, Wenping Wu, Junxin Duan, Pia Francke Johannesen
  • Patent number: 9909112
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having alpha-amylase activity, catalytic domains, carbohydrate binding domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding domains. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Ming Li, Junxin Duan, Noriko Tsutsumi, Guillermo Coward-Kelly, Henrik Lundkvist
  • Publication number: 20180030490
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Lan Tang, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Wenping Wu, Randall Kramer
  • Patent number: 9879242
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Novozymes Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Lan Tang
  • Publication number: 20180002678
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having laccase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Novozymes Inc.
    Inventors: Ye Liu, Lan Tang, Junxin Duan, Yu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170321200
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Novozymes Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Lan Tang
  • Publication number: 20170283817
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having beta-xylosidase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Novozymes Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Lan Tang, Brett McBrayer
  • Patent number: 9777304
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides comprising a carbohydrate-binding module amino acid sequence and an alpha-amylase amino acid sequence as well as to the application of such polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignees: NOVOZYMES NORTH AMERICA, INC., NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Shiro Fukuyama, Tomoko Matsui, Chee Leong Soong, Eric Allain, Anders Vikso Nielsen, Hiroaki Udagawa, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Wenping Wu, Lene Nonboe Andersen
  • Publication number: 20170275604
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having beta-xylosidase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Ye Liu, Lan Tang, Yu Zhang, Junxin Duan
  • Patent number: 9771568
    Abstract: Provided are isolated polypeptides having beta-glucosidase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs, vectors and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Yu Zhang, Lan Tang
  • Patent number: 9765372
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignees: Novozymes A/S, Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Lan Tang, Ye Liu, Junxin Duan, Wenping Wu, Randall Kramer