Patents by Inventor Peter John Somers

Peter John Somers 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).

  • Conversion of aldose to ketose in the presence of oxyanions or mixed oxyanions of tin or germanium
    Patent number: 4069104
    Abstract: A process for converting aldoses or derivatives thereof into ketoses or derivatives thereof which takes place in the presence of oxyanions or mixed complex oxyanions of germanium or tin which form stronger complexes with the ketoses or derivatives thereof than with the aldoses or derivatives thereof. Using the process the equilibrium position in the aldose-ketose reaction is shifted towards higher proportions of ketose. The process is very applicable to the conversion of glucose to fructose particularly when this conversion takes place enzymatically in the presence of glucose isomerase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1978
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
    Inventors: Sidney Alan Barker, Peter John Somers, Robin Ross Woodbury, Geoffrey Harry Stafford