Patents by Inventor Lorraine Joan Giver

Lorraine Joan Giver 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: 20240052295
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method for generating biomass by culturing methanotrophic bacteria under low copper conditions. Also provided are generated biomass and protein isolate prepared from the biomass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Yelena Stegantseva, Lisa Marie Newman, Warren Kwan, Chien-Seng Hwang, Lorraine Joan Giver, Celine Schiff-Deb
  • Publication number: 20230340401
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of combining methanotrophic bacterial biomass production with a methanation process, comprising: (a) culturing a methanotrophic bacterium in the presence of methane and oxygen to produce biomass and carbon dioxide; and (b) generating methane using the carbon dioxide produced in step (a) and hydrogen. Also provided are systems that comprise: (a) one or more bioreactors comprising a culture of a methanotrophic bacterium to produce biomass and carbon dioxide in the presence of methane, and (b) one or more reactors for generating methane, wherein the system is configured so that the carbon dioxide generated from reactor (a) is fed into reactor (b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Alan SHAW, Lorraine Joan GIVER
  • Publication number: 20220119851
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides culture or fermentation media including a biomass or derivative thereof of a hemoprotein-producing C1 metabolizing non-photosynthetic bacterium, methods of culturing cells or tissue with the culture or fermentation medium, and products produced by the culturing methods including food products, food ingredients, phytoprotective bacterial cell products, and other products of interest such as vitamins, fatty acids, amino acid, carotenoids, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Celine Schiff-Deb, Lorraine Joan Giver, Renee Michelle Saville, Lisa Marie Newman, Warren Kwan, Chien-Seng Hwang, Eric Luning
  • Patent number: 10889842
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to recombinant microorganisms engineered for enhance production of a desired amino acid, as well as related biomass, and compositions which are useful, inter alia, as animal feed ingredients. The present invention also provides related methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: CALYSTA, INC.
    Inventors: Renee M. Saville, Joshua A. Silverman, Eric G. Luning, Brandon D. Doss, Lorraine Joan Giver, Sol M. Resnick, Drew D. Regitsky
  • Publication number: 20190271019
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to recombinant microorganisms engineered for enhanced production of a desired carbohydrate, as well as related biomass, and compositions which are useful, inter alia, as animal feed ingredients. The present disclosure also provides related methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Joshua A. Silverman, Lorraine Joan Giver, Jana Mueller, Renee M. Saville, Drew D. Regitsky
  • Publication number: 20190264169
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for using recombinant C1 metabolizing microorganisms capable of metabolizing sulfur containing compounds and other contaminants to biologically convert sour or acidic natural gas into high-value molecules, and to allow recovery of stranded oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Howard Lam Ho Fong, John H Grate, Luan Nguyen, Joshua A. Silverman, Lisa Marie Newman, Lorraine Joan Giver, Drew D. Regitsky
  • Patent number: 10337043
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to recombinant microorganisms engineered for enhanced production of a desired carbohydrate, as well as related biomass, and compositions which are useful, inter alia, as animal feed ingredients. The present disclosure also provides related methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: CALYSTA, INC.
    Inventors: Joshua A. Silverman, Lorraine Joan Giver, Jana Mueller, Renee M. Saville, Drew D. Regitsky
  • Patent number: 10273446
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for using recombinant C1 metabolizing microorganisms capable of metabolizing sulfur containing compounds and other contaminants to biologically convert sour or acidic natural gas into high-value molecules, and to allow recovery of stranded oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Calysta, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard Lam Ho Fong, John H Grate, Luan Nguyen, Joshua A. Silverman, Lisa Marie Newman, Lorraine Joan Giver, Drew D. Regitsky
  • Publication number: 20170211102
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for biologically producing very long carbon chain compounds (longer than C24), such as fatty acyl-CoA, fatty aldehydes, fatty alcohols, fatty ester waxes, alkanes and ketones, from recombinant C1 metabolizing microorganisms that utilize C1 substrates, such as methane or natural gas as a feedstock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Lorraine Joan GIVER, Joshua A. SILVERMAN, John H GRATE
  • Publication number: 20160333307
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for using recombinant C1 metabolizing microorganisms capable of metabolizing sulfur containing compounds and other contaminants to biologically convert sour or acidic natural gas into high-value molecules, and to allow recovery of stranded oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Howard Lam Ho Fong, John H Grate, Luan Nguyen, Joshua A. Silverman, Lisa Marie Newman, Lorraine Joan Giver, Drew D. Regitsky
  • Publication number: 20160333384
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to recombinant microorganisms engineered for enhanced production of a desired carbohydrate, as well as related biomass, and compositions which are useful, inter alia, as animal feed ingredients. The present disclosure also provides related methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Joshua A. Silverman, Lorraine Joan Giver, Jana Mueller, Renee M. Saville, Drew D. Regitsky
  • Publication number: 20150197779
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to recombinant microorganisms engineered for enhance production of a desired amino acid, as well as related biomass, and compositions which are useful, inter alia, as animal feed ingredients. The present invention also provides related methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Renee M. Saville, Joshua A. Silverman, Eric G. Luning, Brandon D. Doss, Lorraine Joan Giver, Sol M. Resnick, Drew D. Regitsky
  • Patent number: 8617864
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, method of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chirally pure compounds, and the chirally pure compounds prepared therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: Lorraine Joan Giver, Lisa Marie Newman, Emily Mundorff, Gjalt W. Huisman, Stephane J. Jenne, Jun Zhu, Behnaz Behrouzian, John H. Grate, James Lalonde
  • Patent number: 8383346
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods for efficient synthesis, cloning, transformation and screening of large diverse libraries of polynucleotide variants comprising well-defined nucleotide differences relative to a reference polynucleotide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Colbeck, Benjamin Mijts, Lorraine Joan Giver, Richard J. Fox, Vesna Mitchell, Bumshik Robert Pak, Lynne Gilson
  • Publication number: 20130040364
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, method of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chirally pure compounds, and the chirally pure compounds prepared therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: CODEXIS, INC.
    Inventors: Lorraine Joan Giver, Lisa Marie Newman, Emily Mundorff, Gjalt W. Huisman, Stephane J. Jenne, Jun Zhu, Behnaz Behrouzian, John H. Grate, James Lalonde
  • Patent number: 8273547
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, method of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chirally pure compounds, and the chirally pure compounds prepared therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: Lorraine Joan Giver, Lisa Marie Newman, Emily Mundorff, Gjalt W. Huisman, Stephane J. Jenne, Jun Zhu, Behnaz Behrouzian, John H. Grate, James Lalonde
  • Publication number: 20110195465
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, method of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chirally pure compounds, and the chirally pure compounds prepared therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: CODEXIS, INC.
    Inventors: Lorraine Joan Giver, Lisa Marie Newman, Emily Mundorff, Gjalt W. Huisman, Stephane J. Jenne, Jun Zhu, Behnaz Behrouzian, John H. Grate, James Lalonde
  • Patent number: 7879585
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, method of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chirally pure compounds, and the chirally pure compounds prepared therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: Lorraine Joan Giver, Lisa Marie Newman, Emily Mundorff, Gjalt W. Huisman, Stephane J. Jenne, Jun Zhu, Behnaz Behrouzian, John H. Grate, James Lalonde
  • Publication number: 20100093560
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods for efficient synthesis, cloning, transformation and screening of large diverse libraries of polynucleotide variants comprising well-defined nucleotide differences relative to a reference polynucleotide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: CODEXIS, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Colbeck, Benjamin Mijts, Lorraine Joan Giver, Richard Fox
  • Publication number: 20090312196
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods for generating libraries of polynucleotide variants comprising defined nucleotide differences relative to a reference polynucleotide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: CODEXIS, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Colbeck, Benjamin Mijts, Lorraine Joan Giver, Richard J. Fox