Patents by Inventor Xinyu Shen

Xinyu Shen 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).

  • Patent number: 11972076
    Abstract: An input device includes a plurality of sensor electrodes and a processing system connected to the plurality of sensor electrodes. The plurality of sensor electrodes includes transmitter electrodes and receiver electrodes. The processing system is configured to perform single-burst multi-frequency presence detection, wherein performing single-burst multi-frequency presence detection includes: driving the transmitter electrodes of the plurality of electrodes with transmitter signals having different frequencies; obtaining resulting signals via the receiver electrodes of the plurality of electrodes based on the transmitter signals driven onto the transmitter electrodes; and detecting whether an input object is present within a sensing region of the input device based on the obtained resulting signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Guozhong Shen, Xinyu Li
  • Patent number: 11926856
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having D-psicose 3-epimerase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Xinyu Shen, Randall Scott Deinhammer, James Ron Huffman, Kendra Stallings, Tine Hoff, Jesper Salomon, Anne Goldbech Olsen
  • Patent number: 11864772
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tourniquet, comprising a fixing module, a hemostasis module, and an indication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: ENODAR MEDICAL (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dawei Zhu, Bifeng Shen, Lianghui Fu, Xinyu Shen, Minjie He
  • Publication number: 20230340432
    Abstract: A process of recovering oil, comprising (a) converting a starch-containing material into dextrins with an alpha-amylase; (b) saccharifying the dextrins using a carbohydrate source generating enzyme to form a sugar; (c) fermenting the sugar in a fermentation medium into a fermentation product using a fermenting organism; (d) recovering the fermentation product to form a whole stillage; (e) separating the whole stillage into thin stillage and wet cake; (e?) optionally concentrating the thin stillage into syrup; (f) recovering oil from the thin stillage and/or optionally the syrup, wherein a protease and a phospholipase are present and/or added during steps (a) to (c). Use of a protease and a phospholipase for increasing oil recovery yields from thin stillage and/or syrup in a fermentation product production process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Nathaniel Edward Kreel, Joseph Mark Jump, Bernardo Vidal, JR., Chee-Leong Soong, Madison Roberts, Melissa Carrie Hooss, Xinyu Shen
  • Patent number: 11781123
    Abstract: A process of recovering oil, comprising (a) converting a starch-containing material into dextrins with an alpha-amylase; (b) saccharifying the dextrins using a carbohydrate source generating enzyme to form a sugar; (c) fermenting the sugar in a fermentation medium into a fermentation product using a fermenting organism; (d) recovering the fermentation product to form a whole stillage; (e) separating the whole stillage into thin stillage and wet cake; (e?) optionally concentrating the thin stillage into syrup; (f) recovering oil from the thin stillage and/or optionally the syrup, wherein a phospholipase is present and/or added during steps (a) to (c). Use of phospholipase for increasing oil recovery yields from thin stillage and/or syrup in a fermentation product production process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Michael John Akerman, Nathaniel Edward Kreel, Melissa Carrie Hooss, Xinyu Shen
  • Publication number: 20230303986
    Abstract: A process of recovering oil, comprising (a) converting a starch-containing material into dextrins with an alpha-amylase; (b) saccharifying the dextrins using a carbohydrate source generating enzyme to form a sugar; (c) fermenting the sugar in a fermentation medium into a fermentation product using a fermenting organism; (d) recovering the fermentation product to form a whole stillage; (e) separating the whole stillage into thin stillage and wet cake; (e?) optionally concentrating the thin stillage into syrup; (f) recovering oil from the thin stillage and/or optionally the syrup, wherein a phospholipase is present and/or added during steps (a) to (c). Use of phospholipase for increasing oil recovery yields from thin stillage and/or syrup in a fermentation product production process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Michael John Akerman, Nathaniel Edward Kreel, Melissa Carrie Hooss, Xinyu Shen
  • Publication number: 20230304054
    Abstract: The instant application provides methods to improve the total starch yield and/or gluten yield from corn kernels in a wet milling process, the method comprising admixing corn kernels or a fraction of the corn kernels with an enzyme composition comprising an effective amount of one or more hydrolytic enzymes, wherein at least one of said hydrolytic enzymes is selected from the group consisting of a GH30 polypeptide, a GH5 polypeptide or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Bernardo Vidal, James Lavigne, Michael John Akerman, Xinyu Shen, Yi Cao, Wei Li, Yu Zhang, Soeren Nymand-Grarup, Madelyn Mallison Shoup, Kenneth Jensen, Kristian Bertel Romer M. Krogh, Lorena Gonzalez Palmen
  • Patent number: 11746366
    Abstract: The instant application provides methods to improve the total starch yield and/or gluten yield from corn kernels in a wet milling process, the method comprising admixing corn kernels or a fraction of the corn kernels with an enzyme composition comprising an effective amount of one or more hydrolytic enzymes, wherein at least one of said hydrolytic enzymes is selected from the group consisting of a GH30 polypeptide, a GH5 polypeptide or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Bernardo Vidal, James Lavigne, Michael John Akerman, Xinyu Shen, Yi Cao, Wei Li, Yu Zhang, Soeren Nymand-Grarup, Madelyn Mallison Shoup, Kenneth Jensen, Kristian Bertel Romer M. Krogh, Lorena Gonzalez Palmen
  • Publication number: 20230235094
    Abstract: The present invention provides process for treating crop kernels, comprising the steps of a) soaking kernels in water to produce soaked kernels; b) grinding the soaked kernels; c) treating the soaked kernels in the presence of an effective amount of GH62 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity or a GH43 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity, wherein step c) is performed before, during or after step b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: James Lavigne, Bernardo Vidal, JR., Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Chee-Leong Soong, Randall Scott Deinhammer, Zhen Long, Yi Cao, Michael John Akerman, Xinyu Shen, Yu Zhang, Brian R. Scott
  • Patent number: 11674127
    Abstract: A process of recovering oil, comprising (a) converting a starch-containing material into dextrins with an alpha-amylase; (b) saccharifying the dextrins using a carbohydrate source generating enzyme to form a sugar; (c) fermenting the sugar in a fermentation medium into a fermentation product using a fermenting organism; (d) recovering the fermentation product to form a whole stillage; (e) separating the whole stillage into thin stillage and wet cake; (e?) optionally concentrating the thin stillage into syrup; (f) recovering oil from the thin stillage and/or optionally the syrup, wherein a protease and a phospholipase are present and/or added during steps (a) to (c). Use of a protease and a phospholipase for increasing oil recovery yields from thin stillage and/or syrup in a fermentation product production process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Joseph Jump, Nathaniel Edward Kreel, Bernardo Vidal, Jr., Chee-Leong Soong, Madison Roberts, Melissa Carrie Hooss, Xinyu Shen
  • Patent number: 11649298
    Abstract: The present invention provides process for treating crop kernels, comprising the steps of a) soaking kernels in water to produce soaked kernels; b) grinding the soaked kernels; c) treating the soaked kernels in the presence of an effective amount of GH62 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity or a GH43 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity, wherein step c) is performed before, during or after step b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Yi Cao, James Lavigne, Bernardo Vidal, Jr., Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Chee-Leong Soong, Brian R. Scott, Randall Scott Deinhammer, Zhen Long, Michael John Akerman, Xinyu Shen, Yu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220315912
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having D-psicose 3-epimerase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Xinyu Shen, Randall Scott Deinhammer, James Ron Huffman, Kendra Stallings, Tine Hoff, Jesper Salomon, Anne Goldbech Olsen
  • Patent number: 11377650
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having D-psicose 3-epimerase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Xinyu Shen, Randall Scott Deinhammer, James Ron Huffman, Kendra Stallings, Tine Hoff, Jesper Salomon, Anne Goldbech Olsen
  • Publication number: 20220025415
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for producing ?-aminobutyric acid (GABA) by fermentation of native strain from raw material of Sayram Ketteki, comprising the following steps: dissolving the cow's milk in the normal saline for dilution to obtain diluents with different gradients first, coating the diluents in solid media for culture respectively, isolating single colonies and storing them in a glycerin cryopreservation tube for cryopreservation respectively; next, inoculating them in liquid medium for culture respectively, and inoculating them in fermentation medium for culture for culture after activation. The content of GABA product obtained by the present invention can reach 450 ?g/mL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: WeiHua Wang, Dongla Gao, Ruicheng Guo, Xinyu Shen, Yiteng Zhang, Jing Liu
  • Patent number: 11180745
    Abstract: The present invention relates to alpha-amylase variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Carsten Andersen, Signe E. Larsen, Esben Peter Friis, Pernille Ollendorff Micheelsen, Anders Viksoee-Nielsen, Randy Deinhammer, Xinyu Shen
  • Publication number: 20210269781
    Abstract: A process of recovering oil, comprising (a) converting a starch-containing material into dextrins with an alpha-amylase; (b) saccharifying the dextrins using a carbohydrate source generating enzyme to form a sugar; (c) fermenting the sugar in a fermentation medium into a fermentation product using a fermenting organism; (d) recovering the fermentation product to form a whole stillage; (e) separating the whole stillage into thin stillage and wet cake; (e?) optionally concentrating the thin stillage into syrup; (f) recovering oil from the thin stillage and/or optionally the syrup, wherein a protease and a phospholipase are present and/or added during steps (a) to (c). Use of a protease and a phospholipase for increasing oil recovery yields from thin stillage and/or syrup in a fermentation product production process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Joseph Jump, Nathaniel Edward Kreel, Bernardo Vidal, Chee-Leong Soong, Madison Roberts, Melissa Carrie Hooss, Xinyu Shen
  • Patent number: 11028378
    Abstract: A process of recovering oil, comprising (a) converting a starch-containing material into dextrins with an alpha-amylase; (b) saccharifying the dextrins using a carbohydrate source generating enzyme to form a sugar; (c) fermenting the sugar in a fermentation medium into a fermentation product using a fermenting organism; (d) recovering the fermentation product to form a whole stillage; (e) separating the whole stillage into thin stillage and wet cake; (e?) optionally concentrating the thin stillage into syrup; (f) recovering oil from the thin stillage and/or optionally the syrup, wherein a protease and a phospholipase are present and/or added during steps (a) to (c). Use of a protease and a phospholipase for increasing oil recovery yields from thin stillage and/or syrup in a fermentation product production process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Joseph Jump, Nathaniel Edward Kreel, Bernardo Vidal, Jr., Chee-Leong Soong, Madison Roberts, Melissa Carrie Hooss, Xinyu Shen
  • Patent number: 11015212
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods of reducing foam during ethanol fermentation by adding a phospholipase A and/or a phospholipase C during fermentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Xinyu Shen, Kim Borch, Justin Schroeder
  • Publication number: 20210145454
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tourniquet, comprising a fixing module, a hemostasis module, and an indication module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Dawei ZHU, Bifeng SHEN, Lianghui FU, Xinyu SHEN, Minjie HE
  • Publication number: 20210130857
    Abstract: A process of recovering oil, comprising (a) converting a starch-containing material into dextrins with an alpha-amylase; (b) saccharifying the dextrins using a carbohydrate source generating enzyme to form a sugar; (c) fermenting the sugar in a fermentation medium into a fermentation product using a fermenting organism; (d) recovering the fermentation product to form a whole stillage; (e) separating the whole stillage into thin stillage and wet cake; (e?) optionally concentrating the thin stillage into syrup; (f) recovering oil from the thin stillage and/or optionally the syrup, wherein a phospholipase is present and/or added during steps (a) to (c). Use of phospholipase for increasing oil recovery yields from thin stillage and/or syrup in a fermentation product production process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Michael John Akerman, Nathaniel Edward Kreel, Melissa Carrie Hooss, Xinyu Shen