Patents by Inventor Shinobu Takagi
Shinobu Takagi 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).
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Publication number: 20240102056Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Randy Deinhammer, Suzanne Clark, Mauricio Quiros, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee-Leong Soong, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi
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Patent number: 11840718Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Randy Deinhammer, Suzanne Clark, Mauricio Quiros, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee-Leong Soong, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi
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Publication number: 20230265462Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2022Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Randy Deinhammer, Suzanne Clark, Mauricio Quiros, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee-Leong Soong, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi
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Patent number: 11566266Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Randy Deinhammer, Suzanne Clark, Mauricio Quiros, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee Leong Soong, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi
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Patent number: 11499170Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Randy Deinhammer, Suzanne Clark, Mauricio Quiros, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee Leong Soong, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi
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Patent number: 10947567Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Randy Deinhammer, Suzanne Clark, Mauricio Quiros, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee Leong Soong, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi
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Patent number: 10941422Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Randy Deinhammer, Suzanne Clark, Mauricio Quiros, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee Leong Soong, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi
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Publication number: 20210040510Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2020Publication date: February 11, 2021Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Randy Deinhammer, Suzanne Clark, Mauricio Quiros, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee Leong Soong, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi
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Publication number: 20210017546Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Randy Deinhammer, Suzanne Clark, Mauricio Quiros, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee Leong Soong, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi
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Publication number: 20200199559Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Randall Deinhammer, Joyce Craig, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi, Suzanne Clark, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee-Leong Soong
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Patent number: 10475561Abstract: A method for producing an RFeB system magnet with high coercivity by preventing a coating material from peeling off the surface of a base material during a grain boundary diffusion treatment is provided. A method for producing an RL2Fe14B system magnet which is a sintered magnet or a hot-deformed magnet containing, as the main rare-earth element, a light rare-earth element RL which is at least one of the two elements of Nd and Pr, the method including: applying, to a surface of a base material M of the RL2Fe14B system magnet, a coating material prepared by mixing a silicone grease and an RH-containing powder containing a heavy rare-earth element RH composed of at least one element selected from the group of Dy, Tb and Ho; and heating the base material together with the coating material. Improved coating and base materials adhesion facilitates transfer of RH into base material grain boundaries.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignees: INTERMETALLICS CO., LTD., DAIDO STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Masato Sagawa, Shinobu Takagi, Hayato Hashino
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Publication number: 20190271011Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2019Publication date: September 5, 2019Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Randy Deinhammer, Suzanne Clark, Mauricio Quiros, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee Leong Soong, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi
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Patent number: 10227613Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Randall Deinhammer, Joyce Craig, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi, Suzanne Clark, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee-Leong Soong, Zhengfang Kang
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Publication number: 20190062792Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2013Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Randall Deinhammer, Joyce Craig, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi, Suzanne Clark, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee-Leong Soong, Zhengfang Kang
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Publication number: 20180245105Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Randall Deinhammer, Joyce Craig, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi, Suzanne Clark, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee-Leong Soong, Zhengfang Kang
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Patent number: 10041054Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Randall Deinhammer, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Joyce Craig, Guillermo Coward-Kelly, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi, Suzanne Clark, John Matthews
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Publication number: 20180122571Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an RFeB-based magnet, including: an RH-containing-substance adhesion step in which an RH-containing slurry obtained by mixing an organic solvent with an RH-containing powder that contains at least one heavy rare earth element RH selected from the group consisting of Dy, Tb and Ho, is blown, in a form of dots or a line, onto a surface of a base material including an RFeB-based sintered magnet or RFeB-based hot-plastic worked magnet which contains a rare earth element R, Fe, and B, thereby adhering an RH-containing substance to the surface of the base material; and a heating step in which the base material to which the RH-containing substance has been adhered is heated to a predetermined temperature at which the heavy rare earth element RH in the RH-containing substance diffuses into the base material through grain boundaries of the base material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventor: Shinobu TAKAGI
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Publication number: 20180023099Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Randy Deinhammer, Suzanne Clark, Mauricio Quiros, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee Leong Soong, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi
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Patent number: 9818513Abstract: Provided is a combined type RFeB-based magnet, including: a first unit magnet; a second unit magnet; and an interface material that bonds the first unit magnet and the second unit magnet, in which the first unit magnet and the second unit magnet are RFeB-based magnets containing a light rare earth element RL that is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nd and Pr, Fe, and B, in which the interface material contains at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a carbide, a hydroxide, and an oxide of the light rare earth element RL, and in which an amount of a heavy rare earth element RH that is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Dy, Tb and Ho in the second unit magnet is more than that in the first unit magnet.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: DAIDO STEEL CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinobu Takagi
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Patent number: 9816112Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Randy Deinhammer, Suzanne Clark, Mauricio Quiros, John Matthews, Anne Glud Hjulmand, Chee Leong Soong, Tomoko Matsui, Shinobu Takagi