Patents by Inventor Minh B. Luu

Minh B. Luu 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).

  • Method for strain improvement of the erythromycin-producing bacterium
    Patent number: 6420177
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of improving the strain used for the production of erythromycin through the disruption of the melA gene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: FermaLogic Inc.
    Inventors: J. Mark Weber, Minh B. Luu
  • Methods and compositions for enhancing erythromycin production
    Patent number: 5976836
    Abstract: The present invention provides isolated and purified polypeptides that increase antibiotic production, polynucleotides that encode those polypeptides, expression vectors containing those polynucleotides, host cells transformed with those expression vectors, a process of making the polypeptides using those polynucleotides and vectors, and processes using those polypeptides and polynucleotides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: FermaLogic, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Mark Weber, Paul E. Hessler, Peter E. Larsen, Minh B. Luu