Patents by Inventor Takuji Ueda

Takuji Ueda 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).

  • Method for Producing L-Amino Acids Using Bacteriua of the Enterobacteriaceae Family
    Publication number: 20140287472
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for producing L-amino acid, for example L-threonine, L-lysine, L-histidine, L-phenylalanine, L-arginine or L-glutamic acid, using a bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family, wherein the bacterium has been modified to enhance an activity of D-xylose permease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Konstantin Vyacheslavovich Rybak, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Slivinskaya, Ekaterina Alekseevna Savrasova, Valeriy Zavenovich Akhverdian, Elena Vitalievna Klyachko, Sergei Vladimirovich Mashko, Vera Georgievna Doroshenko, Larisa Gotlibovna Airikh, Tatyana Viktorovna Leonova, Mikhail Markovich Gusyatiner, Elvira Borisovna Voroshilova, Yury Ivanovich Kozlov, Yoshihiko Hara, Takuji Ueda
  • Method for producing L-amino acids using bacteria of the enterobacteriaceae family
    Patent number: 8785161
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for producing L-amino acid, for example L-threonine, L-lysine, L-histidine, L-phenylalanine, L-arginine or L-glutamic acid, using a bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family, wherein the bacterium has been modified to enhance an activity of D-xylose permease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Konstantin Vyacheslavovich Rybak, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Slivinskaya, Ekaterina Alekseevna Savrasova, Valeriy Zavenovich Akhverdian, Elena Vitalievna Klyachko, Sergei Vladimirovich Mashko, Vera Georgievna Doroshenko, Larisa Gotlibovna Airikh, Tatyana Viktorovna Leonova, Mikhail Markovich Gusyatiner, Elvira Borisovna Voroshilova, Yury Ivanovich Kozlov, Yoshihiko Hara, Takuji Ueda
  • Method for producing L-amino acids using bacteria of the enterobacteriaceae family
    Patent number: 8728774
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for producing L-amino acid, for example L-threonine, L-lysine, L-histidine, L-phenylalanine, L-arginine or L-glutamic acid, using a bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family, wherein the bacterium has been modified to enhance an activity of D-xylose permease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Konstantin Vyacheslavovich Rybak, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Slivinskaya, Ekaterina Alekseevna Savrasova, Valeriy Zavenovich Akhverdian, Elena Vitalievna Klyachko, Sergei Vladimirovich Mashko, Vera Georgievna Doroshenko, Larisa Gotlibovna Airikh, Tatyana Viktorovna Leonova, Mikhail Markovich Gusyatiner, Elvira Borisovna Voroshilova, Yury Ivanovich Kozlov, Yoshihiko Hara, Takuji Ueda
  • Method of Producing L-Amino Acid
    Publication number: 20130288313
    Abstract: An L-amino acid is produced by culturing a microorganism belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae having an L-amino acid-producing ability and modified so that glycerol dehydrogenase and dihydroxyacetone kinase activities are increased, in a medium containing glycerol as a carbon source to produce and accumulate an L-amino acid in the medium or cells, and collecting the L-amino acid from the medium or the cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Yuri Nagai, Kazuyuki Hayashi, Takuji Ueda, Yoshihiro Usuda, Kazuhiko Matsui
  • Method of producing L-amino acid
    Patent number: 8512987
    Abstract: An L-amino acid is produced by culturing a microorganism belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae having an L-amino acid-producing ability and modified so that glycerol dehydrogenase and dihydroxyacetone kinase activities are increased, in a medium containing glycerol as a carbon source to produce and accumulate an L-amino acid in the medium or cells, and collecting the L-amino acid from the medium or the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Yuri Nagai, Kazuyuki Hayashi, Takuji Ueda, Yoshihiro Usuda, Kazuhiko Matsui
  • L-amino acid-producing microorganism and method for producing L-amino acid
    Patent number: 8383363
    Abstract: L-amino acids are produced by culturing a microorganism which has an ability to produce the L-amino acid, but has been modified so that expression of the ybjE gene has been enhanced. The L-amino acid is collected from the culture medium or from the microorganism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Takuji Ueda, Yuta Nakai, Yoshiya Gunji, Rie Takikawa, Yuji Joe
  • L-amino acid-producing bacterium and a method for producing L-amino acids
    Patent number: 8354255
    Abstract: A method for producing an L-amino acid is provided which includes culturing in a medium a microorganism of the Enterobacteriaceae family which has an ability to produce an L-amino acid and which has been modified so as to enhance the ?-glucoside PTS activity, and collecting the L-amino acid from the medium or cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Takuji Ueda, Yuji Joe
  • TABLET MANUFACTURING METHOD
    Publication number: 20120319328
    Abstract: An object is to provide a tablet manufacturing method which may restrain formation of a tablet edge surface and permits less effect of intra-tablet stress developed in process of press-forming on a tablet quality in cases where an upper rod and a lower rod are fittingly inserted into a vertical hole formed in a die to press powder in the die hole with a pushing surface at the lower end of the upper rod and a pushing surface at the upper end of the lower rod in order to press-form a tablet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: TAISHO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Ando, Kenji Yoshida, Takuji Ueda
  • L-amino acid-producing microorganism and a method for producing an L-amino acid
    Patent number: 8293505
    Abstract: An L-amino acid is produced by culturing a microorganism which belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae and is able to produce an L-amino acid, wherein the bacterium has been modified to enhance orotate phosphoribosyltransferase activity is enhanced, in a medium to produce and cause accumulation of an L-amino acid in the medium or cells, and collecting the L-amino acid from the medium or the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Yoko Asakura, Yuri Nagai, Takuji Ueda
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING L-AMINO ACIDS USING BACTERIA OF THE ENTEROBACTERIACEAE FAMILY
    Publication number: 20120219996
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for producing L-amino acid, for example L-threonine, L-lysine, L-histidine, L-phenylalanine, L-arginine or L-glutamic acid, using a bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family, wherein the bacterium has been modified to enhance an activity of D-xylose permease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventors: Konstantin Vyacheslavovich Rybak, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Slivinskaya, Ekaterina Alekseevna Savrasova, Valeriy Zavenovich Akhverdian, Elena Vitalievna Klyachko, Sergei Vladimirovich Mashko, Vera Georgievna Doroshenko, Larisa Gotlibovna Airikh, Tatyana Viktorovna Leonova, Mikhail Markovich Gusyatiner, Elvira Borisovna Voroshilova, Yury Ivanovich Kozlov, Yoshihiko Hara, Takuji Ueda
  • Method for producing an L-amino acid using bacterium of the family with attenuated expression of a gene coding for small RNA
    Patent number: 8227214
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing an L-amino acid using a bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family, particularly a bacterium belonging to genus Escherichia or Pantoea, which has been modified to attenuate expression of a gene coding for sRNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Konstantin Vyacheslavovich Rybak, Aleksandra Yurievna Skorokhodova, Elvira Borisovna Voroshilova, Mikhail Markovich Gusyatiner, Tatyana Viktorovna Leonova, Yury Ivanovich Kozlov, Vitaly Grigorievich Paraskevov, legal representative, Takuji Ueda
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN L-AMINO ACID USING BACTERIUM OF THE ENTEROBACTERIACEAE FAMILY WITH ATTENUATED EXPRESSION OF A GENE CODING FOR SMALL RNA
    Publication number: 20120070865
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing an L-amino acid using a bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family, particularly a bacterium belonging to genus Escherichia or Pantoea, which has been modified to attenuate expression of a gene coding for sRNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Inventors: Konstantin Vyacheslavovich Rybak, Aleksandra Yurievna Skorokhodova, Elvira Borisovna Voroshilova, Mikhail Markovich Gusyatiner, Tatyana Viktorovna Leonova, Yury Ivanovich Kozlov, Vitaly Grigorievich Paraskevov, Takuji Ueda
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN L-AMINO ACID
    Publication number: 20120040415
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing an L-amino acid which includes the steps of culturing a bacterium, which belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae and is able to produce an L-amino acid, in a medium containing glycerol as a carbon source to produce and accumulate an L-amino acid in the medium, and collecting the L-amino acid from the culture. The culture is performed as a fed-batch culture or a continuous culture, and a feed medium containing glycerol is added to the fermentation medium so that the glycerol concentration in the fermentation medium is 5 g/L or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Yuichi Nakahara, Yusuke Hagiwara, Yuri Nagai, Takuji Ueda, Kazuyuki Hayashi, Yuki Yano
  • Method for producing an L-amino acid using bacterium of the family with attenuated expression of a gene coding for small RNA
    Patent number: 8088606
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing an L-amino acid using a bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family, particularly a bacterium belonging to genus Escherichia or Pantoea, which has been modified to attenuate expression of a gene coding for sRNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Konstantin Vyacheslavovich Rybak, Aleksandra Yurievna Skorokhodova, Elvira Borisovna Voroshilova, Mikhail Markovich Gusyatiner, Tatyana Viktorovna Leonova, Vitaly Grigorievich Paraskevov, Takuji Ueda
  • Method for producing L-lysine or L-threonine
    Patent number: 8030036
    Abstract: A bacterium belonging to the genus Escherichia which has an ability to produce L-lysine or L-threonine and which is modified so that a malic enzyme does not function normally in a cell, and a method for producing L-lysine or L-threonine, comprising culturing the bacterium in a medium to produce and cause accumulation of L-lysine or L-threonine, and collecting the L-lysine or L-threonine from the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Van Dien, Shintaro Iwatani, Yoshihiro Usuda, Kazuhiko Matsui, Yuta Nakai, Tomoko Suzuki, Mika Moriya, Yuichiro Tsuji, Takuji Ueda
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING L-AMINO ACIDS USING BACTERIA OF THE ENTEROBACTERIACEAE FAMILY
    Publication number: 20110143403
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for producing L-amino acid, for example L-threonine, L-lysine, L-histidine, L-phenylalanine, L-arginine or L-glutamic acid, using a bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family, wherein the bacterium has been modified to enhance an activity of D-xylose permease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Konstantin Vyacheslavovich Rybak, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Slivinskaya, Ekaterina Alekseevna Savrasova, Valeriy Zavenovich Akhverdian, Elena Vitalievna Klyachko, Sergei Vladimirovich Mashko, Vera Georgievna Doroshenko, Larisa Gotlibovna Airikh, Tatyana Viktorovna Leonova, Mikhail Markovich Gusyatiner, Elvira Borisovna Voroshilova, Yury Ivanovich Kozlov, Yoshihiko Hara, Takuji Ueda
  • Method for producing L-amino acids using bacteria of the Enterobacteriaceae family
    Patent number: 7915018
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for producing L-amino acid, for example L-threonine, L-lysine, L-histidine, L-phenylalanine, L-arginine or L-glutamic acid, using a bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family, wherein the bacterium has been modified to enhance an activity of D-xylose permease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Konstantin Vyacheslavovich Rybak, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Slivinskaya, Ekaterina Alekseevna Savrasova, Valeriy Zavenovich Akhverdian, Elena Vitalievna Klyachko, Sergei Vladimirovich Mashko, Vera Georgievna Doroshenko, Larisa Gotlibovna Airikh, Tatyana Viktorovna Leonova, Mikhail Markovich Gusyatiner, Elvira Borisovna Voroshilova, Yury Ivanovich Kozlov, Yoshihiko Hara, Takuji Ueda
  • L-amino acid-producing bacterium and a method for producing L-amino acids
    Patent number: 7871801
    Abstract: A method for producing an L-amino acid is provided which includes culturing in a medium a microorganism of the Enterobacteriaceae family which has an ability to produce an L-amino acid and which has been modified so as to enhance the mannose PTS activity, accumulating the L-amino acid in the medium or in cells, and collecting the L-amino acid from the medium or cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Takuji Ueda, Yuji Joe
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN L-AMINO ACID USING BACTERIUM OF THE ENTEROBACTERIACEAE FAMILY WITH ATTENUATED EXPRESSION OF A GENE CODING FOR SMALL RNA
    Publication number: 20100311129
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing an L-amino acid using a bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family, particularly a bacterium belonging to genus Escherichia or Pantoea, which has been modified to attenuate expression of a gene coding for sRNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Konstantin Vyacheslavovich Rybak, Aleksandra Yurievna Skorokhodova, Elvira Borisovna Voroshilova, Mikhail Markovich Gusyatiner, Tatyana Viktorovna Leonova, Vitaly Grigorievich Paraskevov, Takuji Ueda
  • Method for producing L-amino acid
    Patent number: 7833762
    Abstract: An L-amino acid is produced by culturing an L-amino acid-producing bacterium which belongs to the Enterobacteriaceae family and which has been modified so that the acetyl-CoA synthetase activity is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Saori Kataoka, Takuji Ueda, Yuji Joe, Chie Koseki