Fat; Fatty Oil; Ester-type Wax; Higher Fatty Acid (i.e., Having At Least Seven Carbon Atoms In An Unbroken Chain Bound To A Carboxyl Group); Oxidized Oil Or Fat Patents (Class 435/134)
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Patent number: 9441212Abstract: Disclosed are methods and compositions related to ONC-T18, D4-desaturases, D5 elongases, their isolation, characterization, production, identification, and use for fatty acid production, as well as organisms containing these compositions and organisms expressing them.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: DSM NUTRITIONAL PRODUCTS AGInventors: Adam M. Burja, Gabrielle S. Chafe, Helia Radianingtyas
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Patent number: 9414612Abstract: The present invention is directed to isolated thraustochytrid microorganisms as well as strains and mutants thereof. The invention is further directed to biomasses, microbial oils, compositions, cultures, methods of producing microbial oils, and methods of using the isolated thraustochytrids, biomasses, and microbial oils.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2011Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: DSM IP Assets B.V.Inventors: Kirk E. Apt, Joseph W. Pfeifer, III, Jon Milton Hansen, Paul Warren Behrens, Ross Zirkle, Tracey Lynn Stahl
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Patent number: 9408404Abstract: Disclosed are methods of preparing high-quality polyunsaturated fatty acid-containing lipids from a lipid-containing material that include enzymatic treatment of components of the material and/or pressure disruption of the material. Lipid-containing materials include biomass, such as microorganisms. The invention further includes products containing the lipid compositions, such as dietary supplements, food products, pharmaceutical formulations, humanized animal milk, and infant formula.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2004Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: DSM IP Assets B.V.Inventors: Craig A. Weaver, Joseph M. Kobzeff, Paul W. Behrens, Jaouad Fichtali, Rebecca M. Bell
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Patent number: 9394375Abstract: Compositions containing biomass, an ionic liquid, and an amide are described herein. Methods of their preparation and use in extracting and processing biomass are also described herein. Further described herein are films and fibers prepared from the compositions. Methods of recovering the ionic liquids used to process the biomass are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2012Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Board of Trustees of the University of AlabamaInventors: Daniel T. Daly, Robin D. Rogers, Ying Qin
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Patent number: 9388435Abstract: Methods and compositions for the production of dielectric fluids from lipids produced by microorganisms are provided, including oil-bearing microorganisms and methods of low cost cultivation of such microorganisms. Microalgal cells containing exogenous genes encoding, for example, a sucrose transporter, a sucrose invertase, a fructokinase, a polysaccharide-degrading enzyme, a lipid pathway modification enzyme, a fatty acyl-ACP thioesterase, a desaturase, a fatty acyl-CoA/aldehyde reductase, and/or an acyl carrier protein are useful in manufacturing dielectric fluids.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2015Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: TerraVia Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Scott Franklin, Walter Rakitsky, George Rudenko, Xinhua Zhao, Felipe Arana Rodriguez, Wenhua Lu, Janice Wee
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Patent number: 9382591Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, collections of nucleic acids, supports, assay kits, and methods for the sensitive and specific detection of microorganisms in a foodstuff. The nucleic acid comprises a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 1-15 and having a length of no more than 35 nucleotides.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2013Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: PALL CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Wang, Yun Bao
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Patent number: 9359581Abstract: A substantially pure Candida host cell is provided for the biotransformation of a substrate to a product wherein the host cell is characterized by a first genetic modification class that comprises one or more genetic modifications that collectively or individually disrupt at least one alcohol dehydrogenase gene in the substantially pure Candida host cell.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Synthezyme LLCInventors: Jon E. Ness, Jeremy Minshull
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Patent number: 9347075Abstract: Mutant acyl-CoA:lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferases [“LPCATs”] having the ability to convert acyl-CoA+1-acyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine to CoA+1,2-diacyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (EC 2.3.1.23) are disclosed herein. Isolated nucleic acid fragments and recombinant constructs comprising such fragments encoding mutant LPCATs, along with a method of making long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids [“PUFAs”] using these mutant LPCATs in oleaginous yeast, are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Michael W Bostick, Narendra S Yadav, Hongxiang Zhang, Quinn Qun Zhu
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Patent number: 9255283Abstract: The present invention is directed to a cyanobacterium that produces neutral lipids or alkanes. Such neutral lipids or alkanes may be used for biofuel production.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2011Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: The Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State UniversityInventors: Roy Curtiss, III, Xinyao Liu
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Patent number: 9249434Abstract: Methods for production of highly unsaturated fatty acids by marine microorganisms, including the heterotrophic marine dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium, using low levels of chloride ion are disclosed. Specifically, methods of increasing production of highly unsaturated fatty acids by marine microorganisms while growing in low chloride media by manipulating sodium ion and potassium ion levels. The invention also relates to methods of production of highly unsaturated fatty acids by marine organisms at low pH levels, and includes methods for generation of low pH tolerant strains.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: DSM IP Assets B.V.Inventors: Paul W Behrens, John M Thompson, Kirk Apt, Joseph W Pfeifer, James P Wynn, James Casey Lippmeier, Jaouad Fichtali, Jon Hansen
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Patent number: 9243267Abstract: The invention provides novel methods for making or modifying oils, e.g., plant animal or microbial oils, such as vegetable oils or related compounds, that are low in a particular fatty acid(s), for example, low linoleic oils, linolenic oils, low palmitic oils, low stearic oils or oils low in a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.Inventors: David Lam, David Weiner, Tim S. Hitchman, Nelson R. Barton, Jonathan D. Lyon
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Patent number: 9228212Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing ricinoleic acid ester from a pure or mixed vegetable oil, in particular castor oil, wherein the method includes at least the step of enzymatic transesterification in the presence of a light alcohol and using a typo-selective lipase in order to obtain a fraction enriched with ricinoleic acid ester. The method according to the invention for producing ricinoleic acid ester includes the steps: i) a first transesterification reaction in the presence of a light alcohol and a lipase extracted from Geotrichum candidum, in order to obtain a mixture M containing AR mono-, di- and triglycerides, fatty acid esters other than AR, alcohol; ii) the step of separating said mixture M into at least two fractions, including a fraction A enriched with AR glycerides, and a fraction B enriched with fatty acid esters other than RA; iii) the step of converting said AR glycerides into AR esters consisting of a fraction C rich in AR esters and a fraction rich in alcohols.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2010Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: ARKEMA FRANCEInventors: Jean-Luc Dubois, Claire Bourlieu-Lacanal, Jerome Lecomte, Eric Dubreucq, Pierre Villeneuve
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Patent number: 9222096Abstract: The present invention provides substantially purified or isolated fungi of Nodulisporium spp. or Ascocoryne spp., plants infected with said fungi, organic compounds produced by said fungi, and related nucleic acids, polypeptides and methods.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2012Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LTDInventors: German Carlos Spangenberg, Timothy Ivor Sawbridge, Simone Jane Rochfort, Scott W. Mattner, Ross C. Mann
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Patent number: 9200307Abstract: Recombinant DNA techniques are used to produce oleaginous recombinant cells that produce triglyceride oils having desired fatty acid profiles and regiospecific or stereospecific profiles. Genes manipulated include those encoding stearoyl-ACP desturase, delta 12 fatty acid desaturase, acyl-ACP thioesterase, ketoacyl-ACP synthase, and lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase. The oil produced can have enhanced oxidative or thermal stability, or can be useful as a frying oil, shortening, roll-in shortening, tempering fat, cocoa butter replacement, as a lubricant, or as a feedstock for various chemical processes. The fatty acid profile can be enriched in midchain profiles or the oil can be enriched in triglycerides of the saturated-unsatturated-saturated type.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Solazyme, Inc.Inventors: Scott Franklin, Aravind Somanchi, George Rudenko, Riyaz Bhat, Xinhua Zhao, Risha Bond, Walter Rakitsky, Alejandro Marangoni, Diza Braksmayer
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Patent number: 9200208Abstract: Crude algae oils produced by practical extraction techniques comprise a wide range of molecular species that can be characterized by advanced analytical techniques. The algae oils comprise a complex mixture of a large number of molecules having varying sizes and therefore varying boiling points, and comprise high nitrogen, oxygen, and fatty acid content, but low sulfur, saturated hydrocarbons, and triglyceride content. Hydrogen/carbon molar ratios are typically greater than 1.6. The wide range of molecular species in the crude algae oils, while unusual compared to conventional refinery feed stocks and vegetable oils, may be upgraded into fuels by conventional refining approaches such as hydrotreating and thermal treatment. Unusual behavior of the algae oils in thermal processing and/or hydrotreatment may provide a high quality product slate, with the flexibility to adjust the product slate due to enhanced cracking behavior exhibited by these algae oils.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2012Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: SAPPHIRE ENERGY, INC.Inventors: Stilianos G. Roussis, Richard J. Cranford
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Patent number: 9163267Abstract: Methods of producing olefins, bifunctional molecules, and 7-tetradecene are provided. In some embodiments, the methods comprise subjecting a omega-7-olefinic fatty acid or derivative thereof to metathesis transformation, wherein the omega-7-olefinic fatty acid or derivative thereof was produced in a genetically engineered microorganism.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: REG Life Sciences, LLCInventor: Stephen B. Del Cardayre
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Patent number: 9163291Abstract: The present invention provides a novel glycerol 3-phosphateacyltransferase gene and use thereof. The object of the present invention can be solved by providing a nucleic acid having a nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, 4, or 8, SEQ ID NO: 3, 6, or 11, or SEQ ID NO: 7 or 12 and a mutant thereof. The present invention also provides a protein having an amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2, 5, or 9 and a mutant thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2011Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventor: Misa Ochiai
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Patent number: 9139854Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides from Cochliobolus heterostrophus C5, Cyanothece sp. CCY0110, Mycocentrospora acerin and Hyaloperonospora parasitica, which code for desaturases and which can be employed for the recombinant production of polyunsaturated fatty acids. The invention furthermore relates to vectors, host cells and transgenic nonhuman organisms which comprise the polynucleotides according to the invention, and to the polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides. The invention furthermore relates to antibodies against the polypeptides according to the invention. Finally, the invention also relates to production processes for the polyunsaturated fatty acids and for oil, lipid and fatty acid compositions and to their use as drugs, cosmetics, foodstuffs, feedstuffs, preferably fish food, or food supplements.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2014Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Toralf Senger, Jörg Bauer, Johnathan A. Napier
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Patent number: 9133406Abstract: Methods and compositions for producing fatty acid derivatives, for example, fatty esters, and commercial fuel compositions comprising fatty acid derivatives are described.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: REG Life Sciences, LLCInventor: Alfred Gaertner
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Patent number: 9115339Abstract: The present invention provides novel fatty acid desaturases genes used for synthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially delta-9 desaturases (FADS9-I). The present invention also provides nucleic acid sequence coding the above-described desaturases, expression vector of the above-described desaturases and recombinant microorganism expressing above-described desaturases.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2013Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF JIANGNANInventors: Wei Chen, Haiqun Chen, Zhennan Gu, Hao Zhang, Yuanda Song, Jianxin Zhao, Fengwei Tian, Yongquan Chen
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Patent number: 9102945Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to gene promoters including promoters from oil palm plants, and to plants (including plants having genetic modifications) that include such promoters. The gene promoters of the present disclosure may be useful in facilitating expression of beneficial and/or desired phenotypic characteristics in plants and plant products.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: MALAYSIAN PALM OIL BOARDInventors: Ahmad Parveez Ghulam Kadir, Siti Masura Subhi, Leslie Eng Ti Low
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Patent number: 9096876Abstract: The invention relates to engineering microbial cells for utilization of cellulosic materials as a carbon source, including xylose.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Gregory Stephanopoulos, Mitchell Tai
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Patent number: 9074160Abstract: The present invention relates to the production of a triacylglycerol oil that is produced from a Pythium species of alga. In one embodiment, the algal species contains at least about 20 weight percent total lipids and contains at least about 10 weight percent of its total fatty acids as eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and less than about 5 weight percent of its total fatty acids as arachidonic acid (ARA). In another embodiment, the present invention relates to various methods to produce eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) from a Pythium species of algae. In particular, Pythium irregulare can be utilized as a viable production organism.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: AlgiSys, LLCInventors: Charles L. Roe, James P. Wynn
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Patent number: 9068213Abstract: Recombinant DNA techniques are used to produce oleaginous recombinant cells that produce triglyceride oils having desired fatty acid profiles and regiospecific or stereospecific profiles. Genes manipulated include those encoding stearoyl-ACP desturase, delta 12 fatty acid desaturase, acyl-ACP thioesterase, ketoacyl-ACP synthase, and lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase. The oil produced can have enhanced oxidative or thermal stability, or can be useful as a frying oil, shortening, roll-in shortening, tempering fat, cocoa butter replacement, as a lubricant, or as a feedstock for various chemical processes. The fatty acid profile can be enriched in midchain profiles or the oil can be enriched in triglycerides of the saturated-unsaturated-saturated type.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Solazyme, Inc.Inventors: Scott Franklin, Aravind Somanchi, George Rudenko, Riyaz Bhat, Xinhua Zhao, Risha Bond, Walter Rakitsky, Alejandro Marangoni, Diza Braksmayer
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Publication number: 20150147790Abstract: The present invention provides novel genes encoding Class II acyl-ACP thioesterases and variants thereof that are active on C8, C10, C12, C14, C16, and C18 acyl-ACP substrates. The thioesterases can be introduced into transgenic organisms, including microorganisms and photosynthetic organisms, for producing fatty acids and fatty acid products.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2015Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventors: Paul Gordon Roessler, Gena Roy
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Publication number: 20150147786Abstract: A process for mechanical destructuring of starch-based biomass was developed that makes use of a short application of high compression, impact, and shearing forces. The biomass may be destructured using a specific energy input that is less than 40% of the total combustible energy of the biomass. The destructured starch-based biomass, with or without saccharification and/or in-feed glycosyl hydrolase enzymes, may be used in feed applications. The destructured starch-based may saccharified to produce syrups and fermentable sugars, and for production of products including ethanol using a biocatalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2014Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventors: KATHLEEN A CLARKSON, F Glenn Gallagher, Aaron Perelman, Luis Fernando Romero Millan, Vivek Sharma, Jayarama K. Shetty, Daniel A. Slanac, Paula Johanna Maria Teunissen
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Patent number: 9040264Abstract: The invention provides microorganisms such as cyanobacteria genetically engineered to express proteins that include transcription factor domains for upregulation of lipid biosynthetic pathways. In addition to expression a gene encoding a transcription factor domain protein, the recombinant microorganisms can express at least one exogenous gene that encodes a polypeptide for the production of a fatty acid, fatty acid derivative, or triglyceride. Also included are methods of producing a fatty acid, fatty acid derivative, or triglyceride using the engineered microorganisms described herein as well as nucleic acid molecules encoding novel transcription factor domain proteins.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2012Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Jessica Kristof, Rekha Seshadri
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Patent number: 9040263Abstract: An alcohol fermentation process and composition that includes production of alcohol esters by esterification of product alcohol in a fermentation medium with a carboxylic acid (e.g., fatty acid) and a catalyst (e.g., lipase) capable of esterifying the product alcohol, such as butanol, with the carboxylic acid to form the alcohol esters. The alcohol esters can be extracted from the fermentation medium, and the product alcohol recovered from the alcohol esters. The carboxylic acid can also serve as an extractant for removal of the alcohol esters from the fermentation medium.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2011Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: BUTAMAX ADVANCED BIOFUELS LLCInventors: Douglas Robert Anton, Stephane Francois Bazzana, Keith H. Burlew, Jelena Cirakovic, Robert Dicosimo, Bruce A. Diner, Michael Charles Grady, Brian Michael Roesch, Francis J. Woerner
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Publication number: 20150143584Abstract: This invention relates generally to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that are related to the presence of seed storage compounds in plants. More specifically, the present invention relates to Arabidopsis thaliana, Brassica napus, Glycine max and Oryza sativa nucleic acid sequences encoding sugar and lipid metabolism regulator proteins and the use of these sequences in transgenic plants. In particular, the invention is directed to methods fir manipulating sugar-related compounds and for increasing oil level and altering the fatty acid composition in plants and seeds. The invention further relates to methods of using these novel plant polypeptides to stimulate plant growth and/or to increase yield and/or composition of seed storage compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE GMBHInventors: Heiko A. Haertel, Garima Bhatt
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Publication number: 20150140619Abstract: A method comprising a series of selective extraction techniques for the parallel production of biodiesel and isolation of several valuable co-products including an alkenone hydrocarbon mixture of the kerosene/jet fuel range (primarily C10-, C12-, and C17-hydrocarbons) and fucoxanthin, a high-valued carotenoid, from the marine alkenone-producing microalgae Isochrysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2015Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Christopher M. Reddy, Gregory W. O'Neil
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Publication number: 20150140618Abstract: Patatin, a lipase obtainable from potatoes, has been found to have advantages in the esterification reaction of fatty acids to yield fatty acid alkyl esters. Methods for application of this lipase activity are described, as well as the use of patatin in various industrial processes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Robin Eric Jacobus Spelbrink, Marco Luigi Federico Giuseppin, Maarten Robert Egmond
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Patent number: 9034612Abstract: The invention provides novel methods for making or modifying oils, e.g., plant animal or microbial oils, such as vegetable oils or related compounds, that are low in a particular fatty acid(s), for example, low linoleic oils, linolenic oils, low palmitic oils, low stearic oils or oils low in a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: DSM IP ASSETS, B.V.Inventors: David Lam, David Weiner, Tim S. Hitchman, Nelson R. Barton, Jonathan D. Lyon
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Publication number: 20150132799Abstract: Enhanced yields of photosynthetically fixed carbon produced by hypersaline photosynthetic algae are provided by co-culturing with a halophilic archaea. Further, methods are provided to control harvesting of desired metabolic products from hypersaline photosynthetic algae by controlling caspase activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2014Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: Nitin S. BALIGA, Monica V. ORELLANA, Kenia WHITEHEAD, W. Lee PANG
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Publication number: 20150132812Abstract: A process for production of biofuels from algae can include cultivating an oil-producing algae by promoting sequential photoautotrophic and heterotrophic growth. The method can further include producing oil by heterotrophic growth of algae wherein the heterotrophic algae growth is achieved by introducing a sugar feed to the oil-producing algae. An algal oil can be extracted from the oil-producing algae, and can be converted to form biodiesel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2014Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventor: James R. Oyler
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Publication number: 20150133698Abstract: The invention generally relates to the production of a fatty alcohol composition from recombinant microbial cells. The fatty alcohols are produced by expressing a gene encoding a heterologous fatty alcohol forming acyl-CoA reductase (“FAR”); a gene encoding a heterologous thioesterase (“TE”) gene and a gene encoding an acyl-CoA synthetase (“ACS”).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2013Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: Kaman Chan, Fernando Valle, Yoram Barak, Louis Clark, Kristian Karlshoej
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Patent number: 9029126Abstract: A method of hydrothermally treating stillage by heating stillage to 200 degrees F. to 350 degrees F., altering physicochemical properties of the stillage, enabling facile separation of the stillage, and creating unique product fractions. A method of performing ethanol fermentation by treating stillage to enable facile separation by heating the stillage to a temperature of 200 degrees F. to 350 degrees F., and separating the treated stillage to recover a high protein solids fraction, a stickwater fraction, and an oil fraction. A method of improving fermentation by heating stillage to a temperature of 200° F. to 350° F. resulting in hydrothermally treated stillage, using all or a portion of the hydrothermally treated stillage as a component of a media, and using the media for a process including fermentation and biomass production. Oil, stickwater, high protein solids fraction, high protein meal, metabolites, biomass, and media obtained from the methods above.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Valicor, Inc.Inventors: James Robert Bleyer, Thomas J Czartoski, Puneet Chandra
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Patent number: 9029122Abstract: Methods for increasing C18 to C20 elongation conversion efficiency and/or ?4 desaturation conversion efficiency in long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid [“LC-PUFA”]-producing recombinant oleaginous microbial host cells are provided herein, based on over-expression of acyl-CoA:lysophospholipid acyltransferases [“LPLATs”] (e.g., Ale1, LPAAT, LPCAT). Production host cells and oils produced by the methods of the invention are also claimed.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Narendra S Yadav, Hongxiang Zhang, Quinn Qun Zhu
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Publication number: 20150125912Abstract: The invention provides a process for the preparation of hydrocarbons substituted with at least one group containing at least one oxygen atom, comprising the process steps A) reaction of a carbon source comprising at least one selected from CO2 and CO to give acetate and/or ethanol with a first microorganism, B) separating off of the acetate from the first microorganism, C) reaction of the acetate to give a hydrocarbon substituted with at least one group containing at least one oxygen atom with a second microorganism and optionally D) purification of the hydrocarbon substituted with at least one group containing at least one oxygen atom.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2013Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: Evonik Industries AGInventors: Thomas Haas, Eva Maria Wittmann
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Publication number: 20150125913Abstract: An integrated facility for the co-production of ethanol and biodiesel fuel is provided. Ethanol and corn oil, the primary product and a by-product from the ethanol plant, are utilized as feedstocks for a biodiesel plant operating within the same general facility as the corn ethanol plant. By-products of the biodiesel plant, principally crude liquid glycerol and gaseous ethanol or methanol, are recycled to various parts of the ethanol plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Rachel Overheul, Brandon Awtrey, Daniel Johnson
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Publication number: 20150125911Abstract: The present invention provides a production method of oxo fatty acid, as well as rare fatty acids such as conjugated fatty acid, hydroxylated fatty acid, partially saturated fatty acid and the like, which uses 4 kinds of enzymes (fatty acid-hydratase, hydroxylated fatty acid-dehydrogenase, oxo fatty acid-isomerase, oxo fatty acid-enone reductase) derived from Lactobacillus plantarum including lactic acid bacteria and the like. Furthermore, the present invention also provides a more efficient production method of oxo fatty acid and the like, which partly uses a chemical oxidation reaction in combination.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2012Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Jun Ogawa, Shigenobu Kishino, Sakayu Shimizu, Yasunori Yonejima
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Publication number: 20150125914Abstract: Recombinant DNA techniques are used to produce oleaginous recombinant cells that produce triglyceride oils having desired fatty acid profiles and regiospecific or stereospecific profiles. Genes manipulated include those encoding stearoyl-ACP desaturase, delta 12 fatty acid desaturase, acyl-ACP thioesterase, ketoacyl-ACP synthase, and lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase. The oil produced can have enhanced oxidative or thermal stability, or can be useful as a frying oil, shortening, roll-in shortening, tempering fat, cocoa butter replacement, as a lubricant, or as a feedstock for various chemical processes. The fatty acid profile can be enriched in midchain profiles or the oil can be enriched in triglycerides of the saturated-unsaturated-saturated type.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Scott Franklin, Aravind Somanchi, George Rudenko, Riyaz Bhat, Xinhua Zhao, Jeffrey L. Moseley
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Patent number: 9023625Abstract: The present invention comprises a method of producing algae derived oils comprising growing, stressing, and harvesting algae and then extracting total lipids from which specific oil fractions are purified.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2011Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: IO-Mega Holding CorporationInventors: Raveendran Pottathil, Sanjay Kumar Amrutrao Deshmukh
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Patent number: 9023616Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods related to a eukaryote of the order Thraustochytriales and family Thraustochytriaceae which when cultured produce quantities of unsaturated fatty acids, such as omega 3 (n-3) and/or omega 6 (n-6) oils, such as DHA, EPA and DPA, capable of being purified and used as all such compositions are used and more, because of their means of production.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2007Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: DSM Nutritional Products AGInventors: Helia Radianingtyas, Adam M. Burja, James Colin Barrow
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Publication number: 20150118723Abstract: An assembly for generating eco-conscious products from waste uses an anaerobic digester for anaerobically processing waste matter to produce anaerobic products selected from the group of products consisting of biogas, liquid digestate, solid digestate, and mixtures thereof One or more eco-assemblies receive the anaerobic products to generate at least one eco-conscious product. The eco-assemblies include one or more of an eco-matrix molder, an algae cultivator, a fast-pyrolysis chamber, a soil enhancer, a RDF pelletizer, and a hydroponic apparatus. A method is provided for generating eco-conscious products from waste by anaerobically processing waste matter to produce one or more of the anaerobic products, which are conveyed to one or more eco-assemblies to generate at least one eco-conscious product.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventor: Derek Christopher Duzoglou
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Patent number: 9017975Abstract: The invention relates to acyl-CoA-independent methods of producing fatty alcohols in recombinant host cells engineered to express an alcohol-forming acyl-ACP reductase. The recombinant host cells may be photosynthetic microorganisms, such as cyanobacteria. Isolated nucleic acid molecules, vectors, and recombinant host cells expressing an alcohol-forming acyl-ACP reductase, and systems for producing fatty alcohols via an acyl-CoA-independent pathway, are also provided. Also provided are microorganisms engineered for the secretion of fatty acids and fatty acid derivatives, including fatty alcohols, and methods of producing fatty acid derivatives using such engineering microorganisms.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2012Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Synthetic Genomics, Inc.Inventors: Erik Holtzapple, Robert C. Brown, Rekha Seshadri, Jennifer Coppersmith, John Verruto
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Patent number: 9017990Abstract: The invention provides the invention provides compositions and methods for the enzymatic treatment (“bleaching” or “de-colorizing”) of chlorophyll-comprising compositions, e.g., algae preparations, chlorophyll-containing or chlorophyll-contaminated feeds, foods or oils, for example, vegetable oils, including oils processed from oilseeds, such as canola (rapeseed) oil or soybean oil, or oil fruits, such as palm oil. In one aspect, the invention provides methods using a chlorophyllase enzyme for the enzymatic hydrolysis of chlorophyll in an algae, an animal (e.g., a fish) or plant preparation, a food or an oil. In one aspect, the chlorophyllase is immobilized onto a silica. The invention also provides compositions of manufacture and detergents.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2011Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: DSM IP Assets B.V.Inventors: David Lam, David Weiner, Timothy Hitchman, Nelson Barton, Mark Burk
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Publication number: 20150111253Abstract: The invention relates to a method for oxidizing a fatty acid or an ester thereof of formula (I) H3C—(CH2)n-COOR, wherein R is selected from the group that comprises H, methyl, ethyl, propyl, and butyl, wherein n is 0 to 30, preferably 6 to 24, comprising the step of oxidizing the fatty acid or the ester thereof by contacting the fatty acid or the ester thereof with a cytochrome P450 monooxygenase of the CYP153 family in the presence of molecular oxygen and NAD(P)H and a whole-cell catalyst that expresses a recombinant cytochrome P450 monooxygenase of the CYP153 family, a recombinant alcohol dehydrogenase, a recombinant transaminase, and optionally one or more than one recombinant enzyme from the group comprising alanine dehydrogenase, ferredoxin, and ferredoxin reductase, and the use of said whole-cell catalyst to oxidize a fatty acid or an ester thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: EVONIK INDUSTRIES AGInventors: Steffen Schaffer, Michaela Hauberg, Mirja Wessel, Hans-Georg Hennemann, Jan Christoph Pfeffer, Thomas Haas, Harald Haeger
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Publication number: 20150111264Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a lipid, by which lipid including a high ratio of medium-chain fatty acids can be produced efficiently. Disclosed is a method for producing a lipid, the method comprising the following steps (1) and (2): (1) a step of culturing algae of the class Dinophyceae in a medium containing glycerin to obtain a culture; and (2) a step of collecting a lipid from a culture thus obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: Kao CorporationInventors: Tatsuro Ozaki, Yasushi Takimura
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Publication number: 20150111263Abstract: Compositions and methods for enhancing secretion of oils from oil producing cells are described herein. In particular, secretion of oils is enhanced by treating the cells with herbicides. The oils generated according to the invention may be useful, for example, in the production of biofuels.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2012Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicants: The Texas A&M University System, Scott & White HealthcareInventor: Martha Karen Newell
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Publication number: 20150111265Abstract: This invention relates to a process for producing lipids and amino acids from a gaseous substrate comprising methane and oxygen. The process uses a culture of a methanotrophic microorganism in a liquid nutrient medium. The methanotrophic microorganism can be a Methylomicrobium bacterium and more specifically Methylomicrobium buryatense 5GB1. The lipid products can be in the cellular membrane of the methanotroph and can be extracted in a separate extraction zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventors: Mary Elizabeth Lidstrom, Marina Georgievna Kalyuzhnaya, Derek Wayne Griffin, Nicholas Bourdakos, Philip Thomas Pienkos, Lieve Maria Louisa Laurens