Patents by Inventor Kirk Matthew Schnorr

Kirk Matthew Schnorr 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: 20140325711
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having lysozyme 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: November 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Jens Erik Nielsen, Mikkel Klausen
  • Patent number: 8846340
    Abstract: The present invention relates to non-catalytic carbohydrate-binding modules (CBM) belonging to a new family of CBM's. A CBM of the invention was found attached to a glycosyl hydrolase family 61 (GH61) polypeptide and was shown to have little homology with known CBM's indicating that it is the first known member of a new family of CBM's. The present invention further relates to CBM's preferably exhibiting binding affinity for cellulose; to a method of producing such CBM's; and to methods for using such CBM's in the textile, detergent and cellulose fiber processing industries, for purification of polypeptides, immobilization of active enzymes, baking, manufacturing of biofuel, modification of plant cell walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Lars Lehmann Hylling Christensen
  • Publication number: 20140245498
    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: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Lan Tang, Ye Liu, Yu Zhang, Junxin Duan, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Tarana Shaghasi
  • Publication number: 20140179588
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulase activity. 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 10, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Lars Anderson, Maria Leonor Quintais Cancela Da Fonseca, Ricardo Leite
  • Publication number: 20140051142
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase I activity and polynucleotides having a nucleotide sequence which encodes for the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleic acid constructs as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Lene Lange, Wenping Wu, Dominique Aubert, Sara Landvik, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Ib Groth Clausen
  • Publication number: 20140051143
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase I activity and polynucleotides having a nucleotide sequence which encodes for the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleic acid constructs as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Lene Lange, Wenping Wu, Dominique Aubert, Sara Landvik, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Ib Groth Clausen
  • Patent number: 8609386
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having tyrosinase 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 for producing, activating and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Jeppe Wegener Tams, Christel Thea Joergensen
  • Patent number: 8603793
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase I activity and polynucleotides having a nucleotide sequence which encodes for the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleic acid constructs as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Lene Lange, Wenping Wu, Dominique Aubert, Sara Landvik, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Ib Groth Clausen
  • Patent number: 8603794
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase I activity and polynucleotides having a nucleotide sequence which encodes for the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleic acid constructs as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Lene Lange, Wenping Wu, Dominique Aubert, Sara Landvik, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Ib Groth Clausen
  • Patent number: 8586829
    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: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Junxin Duan, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Wenping Wu
  • Patent number: 8563268
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having tyrosinase 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: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Jeppe Wegener Tams
  • Patent number: 8507238
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase I activity and polynucleotides having a nucleotide sequence which encodes for the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleic acid constructs as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Lene Lange, Wenping Wu, Dominique Aubert, Sara Landvik, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Ib Groth Clausen
  • Patent number: 8367387
    Abstract: The invention relates to polypeptides having peroxygenase activity and compositions comprising such polypeptides, their encoding polynucleotides, expression vectors and recombinant host cells comprising such polynucleotides or vectors, methods of producing the polypeptides, as well as methods of application and uses thereof, including a process for enzymatic, regioselective oxygenation of N-heterocycles of the general formula (I) to the corresponding N-oxides of the formula (II), by converting N-heterocycles of the formula (I) with a peroxidase polypeptide in the presence of at least one oxidizing agent in a one-stage reaction process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Marek Jan Pecyna, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, René Ullrich, Katrin Scheibner, Martin Gunter Kluge, Martin Hofrichter
  • Patent number: 8338156
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase I activity and polynucleotides having a nucleotide sequence which encodes for the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleic acid constructs as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Lene Lange, Wenping Wu, Dominique Aubert, Sara Landvik, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Ib Groth Clausen
  • Publication number: 20120237993
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase I activity and polynucleotides having a nucleotide sequence which encodes for the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleic acid constructs as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Lene Lange, Wenping Wu, Dominique Aubert, Sara Landvik, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Ib Groth Clausen
  • Publication number: 20120237979
    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: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Junxin Duan, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Wenping Wu
  • Publication number: 20120220513
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of glycosyl hydrolase family 61 polypeptides as enhancers of enzyme benefits in detergents as well as a detergent composition comprising glycosyl hydrolase family 61 polypeptides in combination with detergency enzymes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Marie Allesen-Holm, Lars Anderson, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Nikolaj Spodsberg, Paul Harris
  • Publication number: 20120171189
    Abstract: The invention relates to functional polypeptides secreted from Botryospaeria rhodina CBS 274.96.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Lene Lange, Pernille Uldall Bolvig
  • Patent number: 8143047
    Abstract: The invention relates to functional polypeptides secreted from Botryospaeria rhodina CBS 274.96.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Novozymes Als
    Inventors: Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Lene Lange, Pernille Uldall Bolvig
  • Publication number: 20120009300
    Abstract: The present invention relates to use of an anti-staling GH-61 polypeptide for preparing an edible product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Sara Landvik, Tina Spendler, Lars Lehmann Hylling Christensen