Patents by Inventor Kinya Washizu

Kinya Washizu 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).

  • Transglutaminase-producing strain
    Patent number: 7329521
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a strain capable of producing transglutaminase at a high efficiency; and a process for producing transglutaminase by using this strain. A structural gene from Streptomyces mobaraensis and a promoter and a terminator acting on this structural gene are externally transferred into Streptomyces mobaraensis to give a transformant. Transglutaminase is produced by culturing this transformant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Amano Enzyme Inc.
    Inventors: Kensuke Yuuki, Kinya Washizu
  • Transglutaminase-producing strain
    Publication number: 20060035366
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a strain capable of producing transglutaminase at a high efficiency; and a process for producing transglutaminase by using this strain. A structural gene from Streptomyces mobaraensis and a promoter and a terminator acting on this structural gene are externally transferred into Streptomyces mobaraensis to give a transformant. Transglutaminase is produced by culturing this transformant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Inventors: Kensuke Yuuki, Kinya Washizu
  • Quantitative determination of tenascin as glioma marker
    Patent number: 5436132
    Abstract: A method of determining tenascin in a cerebrospinal fluid sample by immunoassay, etc. is disclosed. The tenascin level in the cerebrospinal fluid serves as a glioma marker and thus the selective diagnosis of glioma is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: Amano Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeki Kimura, Kinya Washizu, Jun Yoshida
  • Recombinant transglutaminase
    Patent number: 5420025
    Abstract: A DNA gene which encodes transglutaminase, a plasmid in which the DNA gene is incorporated, a transformant transformed with the plasmid and a process for the production of transglutaminase that comprises culturing the transformant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1995
    Assignees: Amano Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takagi, Shino Arafuka, Hiroshi Matsui, Kinya Washizu, Keiichi Ando, Satoshi Koikeda