Patents by Inventor Steven T. Bly

Steven T. Bly 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).

  • Publication number: 20250122378
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods for reducing the content of minerals, metals, ions, and/or other undesirable contaminants in vegetable oil, such as corn oil, obtained from fermentation of ground vegetable material. In one aspect, the methods herein produce distiller's corn oil having low amounts of minerals, metals, ions, and/or other contaminants rendering the corn oil more suitable for various further uses, such as biofuel production, with little to no additional refining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Alexander T. McCurdy, Tapaswy Muppaneni, Brett A. Flittie, Shannon S. Urban, Jacob A. Milbrandt, Steven T. Bly
  • Patent number: 12157822
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods for reducing the content of minerals, metals, ions, and/or other undesirable contaminants in vegetable oil, such as corn oil, obtained from fermentation of ground vegetable material. In one aspect, the methods herein produce distiller's corn oil having low amounts of minerals, metals, ions, and/or other contaminants rendering the corn oil more suitable for various further uses, such as biofuel production, with little to no additional refining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: POET RESEARCH, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander T. McCurdy, Tapaswy Muppaneni, Brett A. Flittie, Shannon S. Urban, Jacob A. Milbrandt, Steven T. Bly
  • Publication number: 20240392327
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions, methods, systems associated with propagation and fermentation, and co-products of biochemical production processes, for example, a DCO co-product resulting from converting oil containing grains into bio chemicals via fermentation in the presence of endogenous esterase. The DCO resulting from the processes exhibits lower metal ion content relative to a DCO obtained in the absence of endogenous fermentation with an esterase such as a lipase. The DCO is useful as a feedstock for the production of renewable diesel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew J. Manning, Alex T. McCurdy, Steven T. Bly
  • Patent number: 12139657
    Abstract: Emulsifiers and emulsions obtained as by-products of corn fermentation, compositions comprising the same, and methods of making and using the emulsifiers and emulsions are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: POET Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex T. McCurdy, Steven T. Bly
  • Publication number: 20240368497
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates methods and systems for refining grain oil compositions using water, and related compositions produced therefrom. The present disclosure also relates to methods of using grain oil derived from a fermentation product in an anti-foam composition and/or feedstock to make diesel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Shannon S. Urban, Cory J. Sarks, Brett A. Flittie, Jacob A. Milbrandt, Steven T. Bly, Alex T. McCurdy
  • Patent number: 12071598
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates methods and systems for refining grain oil compositions using water, and related compositions produced therefrom. The present disclosure also relates to methods of using grain oil derived from a fermentation product in an anti-foam composition and/or feedstock to make diesel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: POET RESEARCH, INC.
    Inventors: Shannon S. Urban, Cory J. Sarks, Brett A. Flittie, Jacob A. Milbrandt, Steven T. Bly, Alex T. McCurdy
  • Publication number: 20240218400
    Abstract: Methods of enhancing corn oil recovery from a bio-refinery using recycled by-products of the process including emulsifiers in the form of emulsions, defatted emulsions, precipitates thereof, and/or dried products thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Cory J. Sarks, Alex T. Mccurdy, Andrew Manning, Steven T. Bly
  • Patent number: 12018155
    Abstract: Process oils comprising distiller's corn oil are incorporated into rubber compositions useful for manufacturing tires or various tire components including tire sub-treads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: POET RESEARCH, INC.
    Inventors: Steven T. Bly, Alex T. McCurdy
  • Patent number: 11987832
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions, methods, systems associated with propagation and fermentation, and co-products of biochemical production processes, for example, a DCO co-product resulting from converting oil containing grains into bio chemicals via fermentation in the presence of endogenous esterase. The DCO resulting from the processes exhibits lower metal ion content relative to a DCO obtained in the absence of endogenous fermentation with an esterase such as a lipase. The DCO is useful as a feedstock for the production of renewable diesel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: POET Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Manning, Alex T. McCurdy, Steven T. Bly
  • Patent number: 11952553
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates methods and systems for refining grain oil compositions using water, and related compositions produced therefrom. The present disclosure also relates to methods of using said compositions. The present disclosure also relates to methods of using grain oil derived from a fermentation product in an anti-foam composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: POET RESEARCH, INC.
    Inventors: Shannon S. Urban, Cory J. Sarks, Brett A. Flittie, Jacob A. Milbrandt, Steven T. Bly, Alex T. McCurdy
  • Patent number: 11912958
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates methods and systems for refining grain oil compositions using water, and related compositions produced therefrom. The present disclosure also relates to methods of using said compositions. The present disclosure also relates to methods of using grain oil derived from a fermentation product in an anti-foam composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: POET RESEARCH, INC.
    Inventors: Shannon S. Urban, Cory J. Sarks, Brett A. Flittie, Jacob A Milbrandt, Steven T. Bly, Alex T. Mccurdy
  • Patent number: 11781096
    Abstract: Methods, compositions, and systems for steeping, propagation and fermentation, particularly large-scale operations for production of starch and ethanol and fermentation product streams are provided. Addition of mycotoxin mitigating enzymes or microorganisms expressing mycotoxin mitigating enzymes to steeping, propagation, and/or fermentation tanks, and/or to post-fermentation product streams, mitigates mycotoxin levels in fermentation co-products obtained from mycotoxin contaminated feedstocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: POET Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Manning, Steven T. Bly
  • Publication number: 20230151296
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates methods and systems for refining grain oil compositions using water, and related compositions produced therefrom. The present disclosure also relates to methods of using said compositions. The present disclosure also relates to methods of using grain oil derived from a fermentation product in an anti-foam composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Shannon S. Urban, Cory J. Sarks, Brett A. Flittie, Jacob A. Milbrandt, Steven T. Bly, Alex T. Mccurdy
  • Publication number: 20230145410
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates methods and systems for refining grain oil compositions using water, and related compositions produced therefrom. The present disclosure also relates to methods of using said compositions. The present disclosure also relates to methods of using grain oil derived from a fermentation product in an anti-foam composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Shannon S. URBAN, Cory J. SARKS, Brett A. FLITTIE, Jacob A. MILBRANDT, Steven T. BLY, Alex T. MCCURDY
  • Publication number: 20230084238
    Abstract: Methods, compositions, and systems for steeping, propagation and fermentation, particularly large-scale operations for production of starch and ethanol and fermentation product streams are provided. Addition of mycotoxin mitigating enzymes or microorganisms expressing mycotoxin mitigating enzymes to steeping, propagation, and/or fermentation tanks, and/or to post-fermentation product streams, mitigates mycotoxin levels in fermentation co-products obtained from mycotoxin contaminated feedstocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Andrew J. Manning, Steven T. Bly
  • Patent number: 11530369
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates methods and systems for refining grain oil compositions using water, and related compositions produced therefrom. The present disclosure also relates to methods of using said compositions. The present disclosure also relates to methods of using grain oil derived from a fermentation product in an anti-foam composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Poet Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Shannon S. Urban, Cory J. Sarks, Brett A. Flittie, Jacob A. Milbrandt, Steven T. Bly, Alex T. McCurdy
  • Publication number: 20220282180
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for recovering oil from processed plant materials and by-products formed during a milling process used for producing ethanol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Blake A. Schnell, Kristin M. Calar, John C. Keeler, Matthew J. Rindsig, Benjamin G. Oster, Brett A. Flittie, Steven T. Bly
  • Patent number: 11390832
    Abstract: Methods, compositions, and systems for steeping, propagation and fermentation, particularly large-scale operations for production of starch and ethanol and fermentation product streams are provided. Addition of mycotoxin mitigating enzymes or microorganisms expressing mycotoxin mitigating enzymes to steeping, propagation, and/or fermentation tanks, and/or to post-fermentation product streams, mitigates mycotoxin levels in fermentation co-products obtained from mycotoxin contaminated feedstocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: POET Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Manning, Steven T. Bly
  • Patent number: 11345875
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for recovering oil from processed plant materials and by-products formed during a milling process used for producing ethanol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: POET Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Blake A. Schnell, Kristin M. Calar, John C. Keeler, Matthew J. Rindsig, Benjamin G. Oster, Brett A. Flittie, Steven T. Bly
  • Publication number: 20220049181
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for making one or more antimicrobial compositions and/or one or more virucidal disinfectant compositions. Said methods and systems include exposing a vegetable oil composition to ozone gas to cause ozonolysis of on one or more unsaturated fatty acids present in the vegetable oil composition, thereby forming an ozonated vegetable oil composition and exposing the ozonated vegetable oil composition to a temperature greater than 60° C. while in contact with water to decompose one or more ozonide compounds and form a heat-treated, ozonated vegetable oil composition. The present disclosure also relates to one or more uses of said one or more antimicrobial compositions and/or one or more virucidal disinfectant compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Tyler L. Jordison, Melanie A. Eichmann, Steven T. Bly, Benjamin P. Gacke, Andrew J. Manning