Patents by Inventor Toru Nezu

Toru Nezu 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).

  • Detection method
    Patent number: 9134330
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a biomarker which is highly correlated to the conventional biomarkers of metabolic syndrome or life-style related disease in a wide range of subjects to be tested, including subjects of special health check-up aged between 40 and 74, or an advantageous method for detecting metabolic syndrome or life-style related disease. The object can be solved by a method for detecting metabolic syndrome or life-style related disease by measuring the concentration of choline plasmalogen in a sample to be tested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignees: TEIKYO UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY, ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouta Maeba, Hiroshi Hara, Megumi Nishimukai, Yuya Yamazaki, Toru Nezu
  • DETECTION METHOD
    Publication number: 20130203176
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a biomarker which is highly correlated to the conventional biomarkers of metabolic syndrome or life-style related disease in a wide range of subjects to be tested, including subjects of special health check-up aged between 40 and 74, or an advantageous method for detecting metabolic syndrome or life-style related disease. The object can be solved by a method for detecting metabolic syndrome or life-style related disease characterized by comprising the step of measuring the concentration of choline plasmalogen in a sample to be tested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicants: TEIKYO UNIVERSITY, National University Corporation Hokkaido University, ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouta Maeba, Hiroshi Hara, Megumi Nishimukai, Yuya Yamazaki, Toru Nezu
  • Process for the transesterification of fat and oil
    Patent number: 5089404
    Abstract: A process for the transesterification of substrates comprising (a) fat and oil and (b) one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of fatty acid, fatty acid ester and other fat and oil with the use of a lipase, wherein said transesterification is effected in the presence of a monohydric lower alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: The Japanese Research and Development Association for Bioreactor System in Food Industry
    Inventors: Wataru Matsumoto, Eiji Nakai, Toru Nezu, Kazuaki Suzuki
  • Process for producing oleaginous composition
    Patent number: 4956287
    Abstract: The process for producing an oleaginous composition of the present invention comprises transesterifying a fat containing a large amount of polybasic unsaturated fatty acid(s) as constituting fatty acid(s) with saturated fatty acid(s) and/or saturated fatty acid alcohol ester(s) with the use of a lipase having an site-specificity to thereby give symmetric triglyceride(s) wherein the fatty acid groups at the 1- and 3-positions are selectively transesterified and a polybasic unsaturated fatty acid group is present at the 2-position. The above transesterification should be carried out under such conditions as to give an oleaginous composition which comprises 40% or more of symmetric triglyceride(s) each having a polybasic unsaturated fatty acid group at the 2-position and 50% or more of completely saturated fatty acid(s) each having 16 or more carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignee: Asahi Denka Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuaki Suzuki, Shoji Maruzeni, Eiji Nakai, Toru Nezu