Patents by Inventor Nozomu Yasutake

Nozomu Yasutake 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).

  • Process for producing glycosides
    Patent number: 6797496
    Abstract: A lactosyl glycoside or an N-acetyllactosaminyl glycoside useful as foods, functional food materials, medicines, and reagents is provided with high yield and inexpensively by using a transfer reaction represented by the following formula in the presence of an enzyme having an activity of cleaving a &bgr;1,4 glucosyl bond: LacA-X+Y→LacA-Y+X, wherein LacA represents lactose or N-acetyllactosaminide; X represents hydrogen (H), a saccharide, a glycoconjugate, or a phenolic compound; and Y represents a compound having an alcoholic hydroxyl group or a phenolic hydroxyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Showa Sangyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nozomu Yasutake, Shinsuke Miyoshi, Taiichi Usui, Takeomi Murata, Kazuhide Totani
  • Promoters
    Patent number: 6770475
    Abstract: A promoter having a higher activity than that of an &agr;-amylase promoter of a microorganism of the genus Bacillus can be provided by introducing at least one restriction site sequence in the vicinity of the 3′ end of the promoter of the &agr;-amylase derived from the microorganism of the genus Bacillus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Showa Sangyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Inoue, Naoya Fushimi, Hiroyuki Mizubuchi, Yoshie Yamamoto, Yoshie Ohshima, Nozomu Yasutake, Shinsuke Miyoshi