Patents by Inventor Sigbjorn Lien

Sigbjorn Lien 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).

  • Predicting the ability of Atlantic salmon to utilize dietary pigment based on the determination of polymorphisms
    Patent number: 11046998
    Abstract: A method of predicting the ability of a salmon to utilise dietary pigment, the method comprising determining the alleles present at one or more DNA polymorphism in the salmon and predicting the ability of the salmon to utilise dietary pigment based on the determination of the alleles. The method may be used for selecting a salmon for use as broodstock. Also contemplated is a method of improving the ability of a salmon to utilise dietary pigment, the method including the step of administering an agent that inhibits the expression of the genes bcmo1-like and/or bcmo1 and/or an agent that inhibits the activities of the proteins Bcmo1-like and/or Bcmo1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: AQUAGEN AS
    Inventors: Sigbjorn Lien, Marte Sodeland, Thomas Moen
  • QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI AFFECTING FATTY ACID COMPOSITION IN MILK
    Publication number: 20200308660
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymorphisms indicative of altered milk fatty acid composition in female milk-producing cattle. In particular, the present invention provides methods for selecting a cattle which possesses a genotype which in female milk-producing cattle is indicative of a desired milk fatty acid composition and cattle selected by said method. Further, the present invention provides milk produced by the female milk-producing cattle, methods for selective breeding and non-human gametes. Use of a nucleic acid molecule or an oligonucleotide in an in vitro method for determining the presence of at least one allele, which in a female milk-producing cattle is indicative of a desired milk fatty acid composition, is also part of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Sigbjørn Lien, Hanne Gro Olsen, Tim Martin Knutsen, Harald Martens, Achim Kohler
  • Predicting the Ability of Atlantic Salmon to Utilize Dietary Pigment Based on the Determination of Polymorphisms
    Publication number: 20170114399
    Abstract: A method of predicting the ability of a salmon to utilise dietary pigment, the method comprising determining the alleles present at one or more DNA polymorphism in the salmon and predicting the ability of the salmon to utilise dietary pigment based on the determination of the alleles. The method may be used for selecting a salmon for use as broodstock. Also contemplated is a method of improving the ability of a salmon to utilise dietary pigment, the method including the step of administering an agent that inhibits the expression of the genes bcmo1-like and/or bcmo1 and/or an agent that inhibits the activities of the proteins Bcmo1-like and/or Bcmo1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Sigbjorn Lien, Marte Sodeland, Thomas Moen