Patents by Inventor Peter Dalla-Betta

Peter Dalla-Betta 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 and apparatus for growing microbial cultures that require gaseous electron donors, electron acceptors, carbon sources, or other nutrients
    Patent number: 10696941
    Abstract: Compositions and methods and apparatus for growth and maintenance of microorganisms and/or bioprocesses using one or more gases as electron donors, electron acceptors, carbon sources, or other nutrients, and for a bioprocess that converts hydrogen and carbon dioxide, or syngas, or producer gas into lipid products, bio-based oils, or other biochemical products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Kiverdi, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Dalla-Betta, John S. Reed
  • Process for Growing Natural or Engineered High Lipid Accumulating Strain on Crude Glycerol and/or Other Sources of Waste Carbon for the Production of Oils, Fuels, Oleochemicals, and Other Valuable Organic Compounds
    Publication number: 20200172856
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are microorganisms capable of growing on crude glycerol and/or glycerol and/or methanol, or combinations thereof. In some embodiments the microorganisms are knallgas bacteria that produce or secrete at least 10% of lipid by weight. Also disclosed are methods of converting crude glycerol and/or glycerol and/or methanol produced as byproduct of processes including but not limited to biodiesel production, into organic carbon molecules such as triacylglycerol useful for industrial processes including but not limited to the production of additional biodiesel. Also disclosed are methods of manufacturing chemicals or producing precursors to chemicals useful in oleochemicals, jet fuel, diesel fuel, and biodiesel fuel. Exemplary chemicals or precursors to chemicals useful in fuel and/or oleochemical production are alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, fatty acid alcohols, fatty acid aldehydes, methyl esters, ethyl esters, alkyl esters, with carbon chains between five and twenty four carbon atoms long.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: John S. Reed, Peter Dalla-Betta, Itzhak Kurek, Christer Jansson, Michael Siani-Rose, Lisa Dyson
  • Method and Apparatus for Growing Microbial Cultures that Require Gaseous Electron Donors, Electron Acceptors, Carbon Sources, or Other Nutrients
    Publication number: 20160102287
    Abstract: Compositions and methods and apparatus for growth and maintenance of microorganisms and/or bioprocesses using one or more gases as electron donors, electron acceptors, carbon sources, or other nutrients, and for a bioprocess that converts hydrogen and carbon dioxide, or syngas, or producer gas into lipid products, bio-based oils, or other biochemical products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: Kiverdi, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Dalla-Betta, John S. Reed
  • Method and apparatus for growing microbial cultures that require gaseous electron donors, electron acceptors, carbon sources, or other nutrients
    Patent number: 9157058
    Abstract: Compositions and methods and apparatus for growth and maintenance of microorganisms and/or bioprocesses using one or more gases as electron donors, electron acceptors, carbon sources, or other nutrients, and for a bioprocess that converts hydrogen and carbon dioxide, or syngas, or producer gas into lipid products, bio-based oils, or other biochemical products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Kiverdi, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Dalla-Betta, John S. Reed
  • PROCESS FOR GROWING NATURAL OR ENGINEERED HIGH LIPID ACCUMULATING STRAIN ON CRUDE GLYCEROL AND/OR OTHER SOURCES OF WASTE CARBON FOR THE PRODUCTION OF OILS, FUELS, OLEOCHEMICALS, AND OTHER VALUABLE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
    Publication number: 20150140640
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are microorganisms capable of growing on crude glycerol and/or glycerol and/or methanol, or combinations thereof. In some embodiments the microorganisms are knallgas bacteria that produce or secrete at least 10% of lipid by weight. Also disclosed are methods of converting crude glycerol and/or glycerol and/or methanol produced as byproduct of processes including but not limited to biodiesel production, into organic carbon molecules such as triacylglycerol useful for industrial processes including but not limited to the production of additional biodiesel. Also disclosed are methods of manufacturing chemicals or producing precursors to chemicals useful in oleochemicals, jet fuel, diesel fuel, and biodiesel fuel. Exemplary chemicals or precursors to chemicals useful in fuel and/or oleochemical production are alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, fatty acid alcohols, fatty acid aldehydes, methyl esters, ethyl esters, alkyl esters, with carbon chains between five and twenty four carbon atoms long.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: Kiverdi, Inc.
    Inventors: John S. Reed, Peter Dalla-Betta, Itzhak Kurek, Christer Jansson, Michael Siani-Rose, Lisa Dyson