Patents by Inventor Randall Deinhammer

Randall Deinhammer 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).

  • Polypeptides Having Glucoamylase Activity and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20170175095
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having glucoamylase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Ming Li, Junxin Duan, Zheng Liu, Shiro Fukuyama, Keiichi Ayabe, Guillermo Coward-Kelly, Randall Deinhammer
  • Processes for producing fermentation products
    Patent number: 9677095
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a bacterial alpha-amylase, a raw starch hydrolyzing alpha-amylase and a carbohydrate-source generating enzyme are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to compositions suitable for use in processes of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Randall Deinhammer, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Joyce Craig, Guillermo Coward-Kelly, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi, Suzanne Clark, John Matthews
  • Polypeptides having glucoamylase activity and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 9617527
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having glucoamylase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Ming Li, Junxin Duan, Zheng Liu, Shiro Fukuyama, Keiichi Ayabe, Guillermo Coward-Kelly, Randall Deinhammer
  • ALPHA-AMYLASE VARIANTS AND POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING SAME
    Publication number: 20160369251
    Abstract: The present invention relates to variants of a parent alpha-amylase. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants and to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides, and methods of using the variant enzymes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicants: NOVOZYMES A/S, NOVOZYMES NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Carsten Andersen, Randall Deinhammer, Thomas Agersten Poulsen, Miguel Duarte Toscano, Peter Kamp Hansen, Henrik Friis-Madsen, Anders Viksoe-Nielsen, Signe Eskildsen Larsen, Lars L.H. Christensen
  • Milling Process
    Publication number: 20160257981
    Abstract: Provided are processes for treating crop kernels which comprising the steps of a) soaking kernels in water to produce soaked kernels; b) grinding the soaked kernels; c) treating the soaked kernels in the presence of a polypeptide having protease activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Zhen Long, Wanghui Xu, Wang Han, Scott R. McLaughlin, Randall Deinhammer, Paria Saunders, Bernardo Vidal Jr., Xinyu Shen, Michael John Akerman, Tom Gibbons
  • Alpha-amylase variants and polynucleotides encoding same
    Patent number: 9416355
    Abstract: The present invention relates to variants of a parent alpha-amylase. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants and to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides, and methods of using the variant enzymes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignees: NOVOZYMES NORTH AMERICA, INC., NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Carsten Andersen, Randall Deinhammer, Thomas Agersten Poulsen, Miguel Duarte Toscano, Peter Kamp Hansen, Henrik Friis-Madsen, Anders Viksoe-Nielsen, Signe Eskildsen Larsen, Lars L. H. Christensen
  • Alpha-Amylase Variants and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20160177280
    Abstract: The present invention relates to alpha-amylase variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Carsten Andersen, Signe Larsen, Esben Peter Friis, Pernille Ollendorff Micheelsen, Anders Viksoe Nielsen, Randall Deinhammer, Xinyu Shen
  • PROCESS FOR PREPARATION OF SUGARS AND SYRUPS
    Publication number: 20160168606
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a syrup comprising liquefying an aqueous granular starch slurry with an alpha-amylase variant comprising an alteration at one or more positions corresponding to any of positions 1, 2, 68, 71, 126, 133, 142, 144, 156, 158, 176, 185, 201, 205, 213, 239, 279, 316, 318, 360, 416, 437 and 450 of SEQ ID NO: 1 to provide liquefied starch-containing material; saccharifying the liquefied starch-containing material in the presence of a glucoamylase, and a pullulanase derived from Bacillus deramificans, Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus amyloderamicans, or Bacillus acidopullulyticus to provide a dextrose syrup, and optionally isomerizing to provide a fructose syrup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Michael Elder, Randall Deinhammer, Xiaoyuan Cui
  • PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING FERMENTATION PRODUCTS
    Publication number: 20150291984
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein an alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease, pullulanase and/or glucoamylase are present and/or added during liquefaction, wherein a cellulolytic composition is present and/or added during fermentation or simultaneous saccharification and fermentation. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Randall Deinhammer, Joyce Craig, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi, Suzanne Clark, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee-Leong Soong, Zhengfang Kang
  • PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING FERMENTATION PRODUCTS
    Publication number: 20140315243
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein an alpha-amylase, a thermostable protease, and optionally a carbohydrate-source generating enzyme and/or pullulanase, are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to compositions suitable for use in a process of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventors: Randall Deinhammer, Joyce Craig, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi, Suzanne Clark, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee-Leong Soong
  • PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING FERMENTATION PRODUCTS
    Publication number: 20140273135
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a bacterial alpha-amylase, a raw starch hydrolyzing alpha-amylase and a carbohydrate-source generating enzyme are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to compositions suitable for use in processes of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Randall Deinhammer, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Joyce Craig, Guillermo Coward-Kelly, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi, Suzanne Clark, John Matthews
  • Alpha-Amylase Variants and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20140220635
    Abstract: The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Carsten Andersen, Signe Larsen, Esben Peter Friis, Pernille Ollendorff Micheelsen, Anders Viksoe Nielsen, Randall Deinhammer, Xinyu Shen
  • Processes For Producing Fermentation Products
    Publication number: 20130095522
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein liquefied mash is saccharified or pre-saccharified using a thermostable carbohydrate-source generating enzyme before fermentation or SSF.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicants: NOVOZYMES NORTH AMERICA, INC., NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Randall Deinhammer, Guillermo Coward-Kelly, Ming Li, Junxin Duan, Zheng Liu, Shiro Fukuyama, Keiichi Ayabe
  • Polypeptides Having Glucoamylase Activity and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20130031676
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having glucoamylase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Ming Li, Junxin Duan, Zheng Liu, Shiro Fukuyama, Keiichi Ayabe, Guillermo Coward-Kelly, Randall Deinhammer
  • Alpha-Amylase Variants and Polynucleotides Encoding Same
    Publication number: 20120282658
    Abstract: The present invention relates to variants of a parent alpha-amylase. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants and to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides, and methods of using the variant enzymes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicants: NOVOZYMES NORTH AMERICA, INC., NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Carsten Andersen, Randall Deinhammer, Thomas Agersten Poulsen, Miguel Duarte Toscano, Peter Kamp Hansen, Henrik Friis-Madsen, Anders Viksoe-Nielsen, Signe Eskildsen Larsen, Lars L.H. Christensen
  • Detergent compositions
    Publication number: 20060205628
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the replacement of surfactants, builders, polymers and bleaches in detergent compositions with enzymes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2004
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Randall Deinhammer, Signe Munk, Ture Damhus, Thomas Callisen, Jesper Nielsen