Patents by Inventor Nasreen Abrahams

Nasreen Abrahams 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).

  • Methods for Obtaining Optically Active Epoxides and Diols from 2,3-Disubstituted and 2,3-Trisubstituted Epoxides
    Publication number: 20080199912
    Abstract: The invention provides yeast strains, and polypeptides encoded by genes of such yeast strains, that have enantiospecific internal epoxide hydrolase activity. The invention also features nucleic acid molecules encoding such polypeptides, vectors containing such nucleic acid molecules, and cells containing such vectors. Also embraced by the invention are methods for obtaining optically active internal epoxides and corresponding optically active internal diols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2007
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: Oxyrane (UK) Ltd.
    Inventors: Adriana Leonora Botes, Jeanette Lotter, Michel Labuschagne, Robin Kumar Mitra, Robyn Roth, Nasreen Abrahams, Clinton Simpson, Christiaan Van Der Westhuyzen