Patents by Inventor Kazuhide Totani

Kazuhide Totani 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).

  • Process for producing glycosides
    Patent number: 6797496
    Abstract: A lactosyl glycoside or an N-acetyllactosaminyl glycoside useful as foods, functional food materials, medicines, and reagents is provided with high yield and inexpensively by using a transfer reaction represented by the following formula in the presence of an enzyme having an activity of cleaving a &bgr;1,4 glucosyl bond: LacA-X+Y→LacA-Y+X, wherein LacA represents lactose or N-acetyllactosaminide; X represents hydrogen (H), a saccharide, a glycoconjugate, or a phenolic compound; and Y represents a compound having an alcoholic hydroxyl group or a phenolic hydroxyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Showa Sangyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nozomu Yasutake, Shinsuke Miyoshi, Taiichi Usui, Takeomi Murata, Kazuhide Totani