Enzyme Component Of Specific Activity Or Source (e.g., Protease, Of Bacterial Origin, Etc.) Patents (Class 510/300)
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Patent number: 7026153Abstract: The present invention relates to protease subtilase enzyme, characterized by an insertion in at least one active site loop. The enzymes exhibit improved wash performance in a detergent in comparison to its parent enzyme if it is a subtilase variant.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2003Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Peter Kamp Hansen, Peter Bauditz, Frank Mikkelsen
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Patent number: 6964943Abstract: Laundry detergent compositions comprising a mannanase and a cotton soil release polymer for superior cleaning and soil release performance.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1998Date of Patent: November 15, 2005Inventors: Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol, Christiaan Arthur Jacques Kamiel Thoen
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Patent number: 6946128Abstract: The present disclosure relates to subtilisin protease conjugate comprising a protease moiety and one or more addition moieties. Each addition moiety is covalently attached to an epitope protection position of the protease moiety. The protease conjugates have decreased immunogenicity relative to a parent protease. The present disclosure further relates to cleaning and personal care compositions comprising the protease conjugates.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2000Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Donn Nelton Rubingh, David John Weisgerber, Paul Elliott Correa
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Patent number: 6927055Abstract: Novel protease variants derived from the DNA sequences of naturally-occurring or recombinant non-human proteases are disclosed. The variant proteases, in general, are obtained by in vitro modification of a precursor DNA sequence encoding the naturally-occurring or recombinant protease to generate the substitution of a plurality of amino acid residues in the amino acid sequence of a precursor protease. Such variant proteases have properties which are different from those of the precursor protease, such as altered wash performance. The substituted amino acid residue correspond to positions 62, 212, 230, 232, 252 and 257 of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens subtilisin.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2002Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: Genencor International, Inc.Inventors: Ayrookaran J. Poulose, Volker Schellenberger, James T. Kellis, Jr., Christian Paech, Joanne Nadherny, Donald P. Naki, Katherine D. Collier, Robert M. Caldwell, André C. Baeck
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Patent number: 6921657Abstract: The present invention relates to enzymes produced by mutating the genes for a number of subtilases and expressing the mutated genes in suitable hosts are presented. The enzymes exhibit improved wash performance in any detergent in comparison to their wild type parent enzymes.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2003Date of Patent: July 26, 2005Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Peter Kamp Hansen, Peter Bauditz, Frank Mikkelsen, Kim Vilbour Andersen
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Patent number: 6908893Abstract: A novel cleaning composition for dry cleaning applications is described. The cleaning composition utilizes a stain removal composition having a stain removal surfactant and a stain removal solvent, and the dry cleaning applications use a solvent which is a gas at standard temperature and pressure, a biodegradable functionalized hydrocarbon or a silicone comprising solvent.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2001Date of Patent: June 21, 2005Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventor: Dennis Stephen Murphy
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Patent number: 6861399Abstract: Here we describe the molecular identification of a cDNA encoding a novel serine protease we have termed protease T. The deduced amino acid sequence encodes a prepro form of 290 amino acids, and its alignment with other well-characterized serine proteases indicates that it is a member of the S1 serine protease family. We have found that the protease T mRNA is expressed in stomach, testis, retina, fibroblasts, spinal cord, and several regions of the brain. Protease T mRNA is also found in leukocytes and in the Jurkat (ATCC TIB-152) T cell line. Thus, this protease is potentially involved in gastric, testicular, retinal, dematological, neurological/neurodegenerative and/or immunological disorders. The protease T gene maps to human chromosome 16p13.3 which is near the tryptase locus. Enzymatically active protease T, we have generated, is amenable to further biochemical analyses for the identification of physiological substrates and specific modulators.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2002Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical , Inc.Inventors: Andrew Darrow, Jenson Qi, Patricia Andrade-Grodon
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Patent number: 6849591Abstract: A description is given of a microcapsule formulation comprising microcapsules having a core of a hydrophobic material and a capsule shell of an addition polymer containing in copolymerized form at least 1% by weight of cationogenic monomers and/or polyethylenically unsaturated monomers whose unsaturated sites are connected via successive chemical bonds of which at least one bond is acid-hydrolyzable. A description is further given of a microcapsule formulation comprising microcapsules having a core of a hydrophobic material, which comprises at least one fragrance or perfume, and a shell of an addition polymer containing in copolymerized form at least 1% by weight of anionogenic monoethylenically unsaturated monomers and/or polyethylenically unsaturated monomers whose unsaturated sites are connected via successive chemical bonds of which at least one bond is base-hydrolyzable. The microcapsule formulations are employed in laundry detergents or cleaning products.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2000Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Dieter Boeckh, Ekkehard Jahns, Werner Bertleff, Peter Neumann
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Patent number: 6815190Abstract: The present invention relates to cutinase variants having improved thermostability. The variants have one or more amino acid substitutions within the vicinity of the N-terminal amino acid.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2001Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Masanobu Abo, Shiro Fukuyama, Allan Svendsen, Tomoko Matsui
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Patent number: 6808913Abstract: The present invention relates to mutations of a subtilisin gene which result in changes in the chemical characteristics of subtilisin enzymes. Mutations at specific nucleic acids of the subtilisin gene result in amino acid substitutions and consequently, altered enzyme function. Some of these mutant enzymes exhibit physical properties advantageous to industrial applications, particularly in the detergent industry, providing subtilisin which is more stable to oxidation, possesses greater protease activity, and exhibits improved washability.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2002Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Sven Hastrup, Sven Branner, Fanny Norris, Steffen Bjørn Petersen, Leif Nørskov-Lauridsen, Villy Johannes Jensen, Dorrit Aaslyng
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Patent number: 6808915Abstract: The present invention relates to variants of a cell-wall degrading enzyme having a beta-helix structure, which variant has at least one substituent in a position determined by identifying all residues potentially belonging to a stack; characterizing the stack as interior or exterior; characterizing the stack as polar, hydrophobic or aromatic/heteroaromatic based on the dominating characteristics of the parent or wild-type enzyme stack residues and/or its orientation relative to the beta-helix (interior or exterior); optimizing all stack positions of a stack either to hydrophobic aliphatic amino acids, hydrophobic aromatic or polar amino acids by allowing mutations within one or all positions to amino acids belonging to one of these groups; measuring thermostability of the variants by DSC or an application-related assay such as a Pad-Steam application test; and selecting the stabilized variants. Variant of a wild-type parent pectate lyase (EC 4.2.2.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2003Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Sanne O Schroder Glad, Carsten Andersen, Martin Schulein, Torben Peter
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Patent number: 6803222Abstract: The present invention relates to alkaline proteases having high specific activity and strong oxidant resistance. The present invention also relates to alkaline proteases having excellent detergency that is to be added to a detergent.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2001Date of Patent: October 12, 2004Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Yuji Hatada, Akinori Ogawa, Yasushi Kageyama, Tsuyoshi Sato, Hiroyuki Araki, Nobuyuki Sumitomo, Mitsuyoshi Okuda, Katsuhisa Saeki
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Patent number: 6756350Abstract: A transparent consumer product, such as an aqueous heavy duty liquid having colorant dye, in a clear bottle, wherein the material of which said bottle is made comprises fluorescent dye to protect the colorant dye. The f-dye may, alternatively or in addition to, be present in a clear label on such bottle.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 1999Date of Patent: June 29, 2004Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Edward John Giblin, Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu, Kristina Marie Neuser, Myongsuk Bae-Lee, Dennis Stephen Murphy, Daniel Joseph Kuzmenka, Barbara Helen Bory
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Patent number: 6753306Abstract: A germicide and disinfectant composition contains detergent and at least two enzymes adapted to cause lysis in glycoprotein in infectious agents. These germicidal and disinfectant compositions are used in conjunction with prepackaged wipes and kits that allows the user to remove liquid or dried contaminated material without coming into direct contact with the contaminated material.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2002Date of Patent: June 22, 2004Inventor: Joseph J. Simpson
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Patent number: 6734155Abstract: Cleaning compositions, including laundry, dishwashing, hard surface cleaner, oral/dental cleaning compositions, comprising an oxidoreductase with an &agr;/&bgr;-hydrolase fold and a catalytic triad consisting of the amino acid residues serine, histidine and aspartic acid, which provide effective and efficient cleaning of colored and/or everyday body stains and/or soils and the sanitization of treated surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2000Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ivan Maurice Alfons Jan Herbots, Alfred Busch
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Patent number: 6703357Abstract: Agents for cleaning hard surfaces, such as crockery, containing a &bgr;-glucanase and compatible cleaning constituents, and having good cleaning effect on polysaccharide stains.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2000Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf AktienInventors: Karl-Heinz Maurer, Christian Nitsch
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Patent number: 6642196Abstract: There is provided a method of delivering a benefit agent whereby a benefit agent is first loaded to a surface and subsequently unloaded and transferred and delivered to a second surface. More in particular, the benefit agent is first loaded onto a garment during a laundering process, and subsequently delivered to another surface. The benefit agents can be fragrance agents, perfumes, colour enhancers, fabric softening agents, polymeric lubricants, photoprotective agents, latexes, resins, dye fixative agents, encapsulated materials, antioxidants, insecticides, soil repelling agents, soil release agents, and cellulose fibers.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2000Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Steven Howell, Julie Little, Cornelis Paul Van Der Logt, Neil James Parry
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Patent number: 6632646Abstract: Enzymes produced by mutating the genes for a number of subtilisin proteases and expressing the mutated genes in suitable hosts are presented. The enzymes exhibit improved wash performance in comparison to their wild type parent enzymes. The enzymes are well-suited for use in detergent compositions.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2000Date of Patent: October 14, 2003Assignees: Novozymes A/S, Unilever PLC.Inventors: Dorrit Aaslyng, Sven Branner, Sven Hastrup, Leif Nørskov-Lauritsen, Ole Hvilsted Olsen, Merete Simonsen, Eric Casteleijn, Maarten Robert Egmond, Johan Haverkamp, John David Marugg, Arnoldus Theodorus Anthonius Mooren
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Patent number: 6607902Abstract: A variant of a cell-wall degrading enzyme having a beta-helix structure, which variant holds at least one substituent in a position determined by identifying all residues potentially belonging to a stack; characterising the stack as interior or exterior; characterising the stack as polar, hydrophobic or aromatic/heteroaromatic based on the dominating characteristics of the parent or wild-type enzyme stack residues and/or its orientation relative to the beta-helix (interior or exterior); optimizing all stack positions of a stack either to hydrophobic aliphatic amino acids, hydrophobic aromatic or polar amino acids by allowing mutations within one or all positions to amino acids belonging to one of these groups; measuring thermostability of the variants by DSC or an application-related assay such as a Pad-Steam application test; and selecting the stabilized variants. Variant of a wild-type parent pectate lyase (EC 4.2.2.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2001Date of Patent: August 19, 2003Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Sanne O Schrøder Glad, Carsten Andersen, Martin Schulein, Torben Peter Frandsen
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Patent number: 6586384Abstract: A method of delivering a benefit agent to a selected area of a fabric for exerting a predetermined activity, wherein the area is pre-treated with a multi-specific binding molecule which has a high binding affinity to said area through one specificity and is capable of binding to said benefit agent through another specificity, followed by contacting said pre-treated area with said benefit agent, to enhance said pre-determined activity to said area. Preferably, the binding molecule is an antibody or fragment thereof, or a fusion protein comprising a cellulose binding domain and a domain having a high binding affinity to another ligand which is directed to said benefit agent. The method is useful for stain removal, perfume delivery, and treating collars and cuffs for wear.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2000Date of Patent: July 1, 2003Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Sandra Hemmington, Steven Howell, Julie Little, Cornelis Paul Van Der Logt, Neil James Parry, Richard George Smith
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Patent number: 6579842Abstract: A method of delivering a benefit agent to fabric for exerting a pre-determined activity, wherein the fabric is pre-treated with a multi-specific binding molecule which has a high binding affinity to the fabric through one specificity and is capable of binding to the benefit agent through another specificity, followed by contacting the pre-treated fabric with the benefit agent, to enhance the pre-determined activity to the fabric. Preferably, the binding molecule is an antibody or fragment thereof, or a fusion protein comprising a cellulose binding domain and a domain having a high binding affinity to another ligand which is directed to said benefit agent. The method is useful for example for stain removal, perfume delivery, and treating collars and cuffs for wear.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2000Date of Patent: June 17, 2003Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Steven Howell, Julie Little, Cornelis Paul Van Der Logt, Neil James Parry
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Patent number: 6564813Abstract: A process is presented for cleaning fermentation or storage tanks with an enzyme-containing formulation containing one or more laccases, peroxidases, oxireductases, transferases, isomerases, lyases, and ligases or a mixture thereof. The process provides improved cleaning results, water consumption, and waste water pollution.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2000Date of Patent: May 20, 2003Assignee: Ecolab GmbH & Co. OHGInventors: Marion Lengling, Harald Kluschanzoff
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Publication number: 20030087784Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-compartment pouch made from a water-soluble film and having at least two compartments, said multi-compartment pouch comprises a composition comprising a solid component and a liquid component, wherein at least one compartment comprises a solid component and at least one compartment comprises a liquid component.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2002Publication date: May 8, 2003Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Nigel Patrick Somervile-Roberts, Bruno Matthieu Dasque, Thomas John Pounds
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Patent number: 6541438Abstract: The present invention relates to a modified enzyme which comprises a catalytically active amino acid sequence of a cellulolytic enzyme linked to an amino acid sequence comprising a Cellulose Binding Domain (CBD) having a relative binding constant (Kr-a) for binding to amorphous cellulose higher than 2.4 l/gcellulose, preferably higher than 3.5 l/gcellulose, more preferably higher than 4 l/gcellulose, for selective binding and hydrolysis of amorphous cellulose of cotton containing fabrics in a laundry and/or fabric care application. The present invention further relates to laundry detergent and/or fabric care compositions comprising this modified enzyme.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2001Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Johan Smets, Alfred Busch, André Cesar Baeck, Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol, Stanton Lane Boyer
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Patent number: 6506589Abstract: The present invention relates to mutations of the subtilisin gene, some of which result in changes in the chemical characteristics of subtilisin enzyme. Mutations are created at specific nucleic acids of the subtilisin gene and, in various specific embodiments, the mutant enzymes possess altered chemical properties including, but not limited to, increased stability to oxidation, augmented proteolytic activity, and improved washability. The present invention also relates, but is not limited to, the amino acid and DNA sequences for two proteases derived from Bacillus lentus variants, subtilisin 147 and subtilisin 309, as well as mutations of these genes and the corresponding mutant enzymes.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: January 14, 2003Assignee: Novozymes, A/SInventors: Sven Hastrup, Sven Branner, Fanny Norris, Steffen Bjørn Petersen, Leif Nørskov-Lauridsen, Villy Johannes Jensen, Dorrit Aaslyng
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Patent number: 6498137Abstract: An aerosol aqueous cleaning composition having: an effective mineral dissolving amount of an organic acid of at least 5% by weight of the cleaning compositions; an effective amount of a spore forming microbial composition; an effective cleaning amount of a blend of wetting agents, the first wetting agent having a hydrophobic/lipophobic number (HLB) of about 10 and higher and a second wetting agent having an HLB number of about 5 or less; an effective amount of a thickening agent; an effective amount of a propellant and water.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2002Date of Patent: December 24, 2002Assignee: Spartan Chemical Company, Inc.Inventors: William J. Schalitz, Jason J. Welch, Ronald Thomas Cook
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Patent number: 6492316Abstract: Cleaning compositions, including laundry, dishwashing, hard surface and/or oral/dental compositions comprising a cytochrome, particularly cytochrome P450. Said compositions provide effective and efficient cleaning of colored and/or everyday body stains and/or soils and provide sanitization of the treated surfaces. When formulated into a laundry detergent composition, the present invention provides fabric realistic item cleaning and enhanced whitening.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2000Date of Patent: December 10, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ivan Maurice Alfons Jan Herbots, Alfred Busch
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Patent number: 6486113Abstract: The invention relates to a mutant &agr;-amylase having an amino acid sequence obtained by making deletion or replacement by another arbitrary amino acid residue of at least a methionine residue at the 202-position or a position homologous thereto among amino acid residues set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, which constitute a liquefying alkaline &agr;-amylase, a gene thereof, and a detergent composition comprising the mutant &agr;-amylase. The mutant &agr;-amylase has the optimum pH in an alkaline range, an excellent &agr;-amylase activity, and high and lasting resistance to oxidizing agents, and is hence particularly useful as a component of detergent compositions containing a bleaching agent and an oxidizing agent.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 1999Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Yuji Hatada, Kaori Ikawa, Susumu Ito, Kazuaki Igarashi, Hiroshi Hagihara, Yasuhiro Hayashi, Hiroyuki Araki, Katsuya Ozaki
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Patent number: 6486112Abstract: The present invention relates to laundry detergent compositions, comprising a saccharide gum degrading enzyme, providing excellent cleaning performance, especially food stain/soil removal, dingy cleaning and whiteness benefits.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2000Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol, Steven Paul Georges Cooremans, Kevin Robert Johnstone, Kotikanyadanam Sreekrishna, Charles Winston Saunders, Ivan Maurice Alfons Jan Herbots, André Cesar Baeck
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Patent number: 6475979Abstract: Disclosed are cleansing products that include reduced malto-oligosaccharides. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a cleansing product includes a surfactant and a reduced malto-oligosaccharide. In accordance with another embodiment, the reduced malto-oligosaccharide is an encapsulant for a product carrier in a powdered laundry-type detergent.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2001Date of Patent: November 5, 2002Assignee: Grain Processing CorporationInventors: Frank W. Barresi, Richard L. Antrim, Susan O. Freers
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Patent number: 6475982Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition containing MAP zeolite, ethoxylated nonionic surfactant and an alkali metal carbonate.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2000Date of Patent: November 5, 2002Assignee: Colgate Palmolive CompanyInventors: Charles Beagle, Richard Adams, David Beck
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Patent number: 6471728Abstract: A blood removing cleaning composition which may take the form of a detergent builder, detergent additive, or detergent pre-spotter, generally including an amount of amine compound effective to remove blood from fabric; and, optionally, an effective soil degrading amount of enzyme, wherein the composition is generally free of any neutral salt. In other preferred forms, the compositions disclosed herein may comprise surfactants, sources of alkalinity, and sequestrants, among other adjuvants.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1998Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignee: Ecolab IncorporatedInventors: Kim R. Smith, Lynne Ann Olson
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Patent number: 6465417Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition containing a MAP zeolite, ethoxylated nonionic surfactant and an alkali metal carbonate.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2000Date of Patent: October 15, 2002Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Co.Inventors: Charles Beagle, Richard Adams, David Beck
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Patent number: 6465418Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition containing zeolite, ethoxylated nonionic surfactant and an alkali metal carbonate.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2000Date of Patent: October 15, 2002Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Co.Inventors: Charles Beagle, Richard Adams, David Beck
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Patent number: 6465235Abstract: Novel carbonyl hydrolase mutants derived from the amino acid sequence of naturally-occurring or recombinant non-human carbonyl hydrolases and DNA sequences encoding the same. The mutant carbonyl hydrolases, in general, are obtained by in vitro modification of a precursor DNA sequence encoding the naturally-occurring or recombinant carbonyl hydrolase to encode the substitution, insertion or deletion of one or more amino acids in the amino acid sequence of a precursor carbonyl hydrolase. Such mutants have one or more properties which are different than the same property of the precursor hydrolase.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1997Date of Patent: October 15, 2002Assignee: Genenco International, Inc.Inventors: Richard Ray Bott, Robert Mark Caldwell, Brian C. Cunningham, David Aaron Estell, Scott Douglas Power, James Allen Wells
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Publication number: 20020110854Abstract: The present invention relates to lipolytic enzymes and DNA sequences encoding same. More specifically, the present invention relates to the lipolytic enzyme and DNA encoding same isolated from Fusarium culmorum CBS 513.94 and analogues thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2001Publication date: August 15, 2002Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventor: Noriko Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 6420333Abstract: A process for encapsulating a benefit agent and/or colorant for personal care or detergent compositions, the process comprising immersing an emulsion or a dispersion containing the benefit agent and/or colorant into an aqueous curing solution containing a high HLB surfactant and/or a super-wetting agent. The preferred process further includes increasing the density of the droplets, to allow for easier penetration into the curing solution.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2001Date of Patent: July 16, 2002Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu, Kristina Marie Neuser, MyongSuk Bae-Lee, Eric Charles Ehrnsperger, Tracy Bowens
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Patent number: 6420332Abstract: The present invention is a blood and organic stain remover which includes in a first embodiment a protease, an amylase, an enzyme stabilizing system such as a source of calcium, an alcohol, and an alkanolamine, a nonionic detergent, and water. In a second embodiment, the blood and organic stain remover includes a protease, an amylase, an enzyme stabilizing system, a nonionic detergent, an anionic detergent, and water. In the second embodiment the enzyme stabilizing system preferably includes a petroleum distillate. A system of using the aqueous blood and organic stain remover composition in a prepackaged wipe which permits the user to remove blood and organic spots or to pre-spot blood and organic stains prior to washing without the need for direct skin contact with the spot is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1999Date of Patent: July 16, 2002Inventor: Joseph J. Simpson
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Patent number: 6410500Abstract: Shaped bodies containing builders, alkali sources, bleaching agents, enzymes and surfactants. Particularly high-performance detersive shaped bodies with high stability in storage, a good perfume profile and a defined solubility profile are obtained if more than 80% by weight of the total content of an active substance (1) containing a constituent from the group of soil-release compounds is present in a region which makes up no more than 40% by volume of the shaped body.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1999Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf AktienInventors: Juergen Haerer, Thomas Mueller-Kirschbaum, Christian Nitsch, Thomas Moeller, Hans-Josef Beaujean, Bernd Richter
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Publication number: 20020077266Abstract: Stain removal patch having a substrate and a first stain receiver. The first stain receiver has a liquid cleaner absorbed therein, and is adjacent the first surface of the substrate. At least a portion of the substrate extends beyond the perimeter of the stain receiver. There is an adhesive agent between the substrate and the stain receiver and at least a portion at the adhesive agent on the substrate extends beyond the perimeter of the stain receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2001Publication date: June 20, 2002Inventors: Flor Gutierrez Gabriel, Koichi Hirai, Kimiko Mitsunaka, Kenji Shindo
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Patent number: 6391838Abstract: The cleaning performance of bleach-containing detergents, especially against protein- and starch-containing soils and colored soils, was to be improved.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2000Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf AktienInventors: Horst-Dieter Speckmann, Joerg Poethkow
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Patent number: 6387874Abstract: Described is an aqueous cleaning composition comprising: an effective mineral dissolving amount of an organic acid of at least 5% by weight of the cleaning compositions; an effective amount of a spore forming microbial composition; an effective cleaning amount of a blend of wetting agents, the first wetting agent having a hydrophobic/lipophobic number (HLB) of about 10 and higher and a second wetting agent having an HLB number of about 5 or less; an effective amount of a thickening agent and water. The composition is also available in powder form without the thickening agent.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2001Date of Patent: May 14, 2002Assignee: Spartan Chemical Company, Inc.Inventors: William John Schalitz, Jason J. Welch, Ronald Thomas Cook
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Patent number: 6384008Abstract: Non-aqueous, particulate-containing heavy duty liquid laundry detergent compositions that are in the form of a stable suspension of particulate material, essentially including from about 0.1% to about 10%, by weight of the detergent composition of an ethoxylated quaternized amine clay material. These compositions preferably include a peroxygen bleaching agent and an organic detergent builder, dispersed in a liquid phase preferably structured with a surfactant. Such compositions provide especially desirable cleaning and bleaching of fabrics laundered therewith and also exhibit especially desirable aesthetics.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2000Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Diane Parry
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Patent number: 6380145Abstract: The present invention relates to cleaning compositions, including laundry, fabric care, dishwashing, hard surface cleaner, oral/dental cleaning compositions, comprising a polyphenol/heterocyclic substrate based oxygenase, which provide effective and efficient cleaning of coloured and everyday body stains and/or soils and provides sanitisation of the treated surfaces. Furthermore, the cleaning compositions of the present invention provide fabric realistic items cleaning and whitening performance while providing excellent fabric colour safety when formulated as a laundry detergent composition.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2000Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Inventors: Ivan Maurice Alfons Jan Herbots, Mary Vijayarani Barnabas, Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol, Alfred Busch
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Patent number: 6376450Abstract: The present invention relates to cleaning compositions comprising a protease variant.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2000Date of Patent: April 23, 2002Inventors: Chanchal Kumar Ghosh, AndréCesar Baeck, Ryohei Ohtani, Alfred Busch, Michael Stanford Showell, Ayrookaran J. Poulose, Volker Schellenberger, James T. Kellis, Jr., Christian Paech, Joanne Nadherny, Donald P. Naki, Katherine D. Collier, Robert M. Caldwell
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Patent number: 6376445Abstract: Detergent compositions for cleansing fabrics, dishware and hard surfaces contain a mannanase enzyme, a protease enzyme and detersive ingredients. Mannanase enzymes from Bacillus agaradherens and Bacillus subtilisis strain 168, gene yght, as well as isolated polypeptides therefrom, are used to remove stains.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2000Date of Patent: April 23, 2002Assignee: Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol, Michael Stanford Showell
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Publication number: 20020045559Abstract: This invention relates to a pouched liquid composition which comprises an alkoxylated amine, imine, amide or imide compound, small amount of water and specific levels high ionic strength chelating agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2001Publication date: April 18, 2002Applicant: The Proctor & Gamble CompanyInventors: Peter Jens Forth, Etinne Maria Betty Andre Jeuniaux, Hilde Christina Jozef Aelbrecht
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Patent number: 6350728Abstract: An enzyme granule and means for producing the enzyme granule is presented. The enzyme granule is composed of an enzyme, a carrier material, and a coating system of 5 to 70 percent by weight fine-particle inorganic water-insoluble pigment, 45 to 90 percent by weight of a water-soluble organic substance having a melting point of from 40 to 70° C., and 0 to 30 percent by weight of a flow improver. The granule can be produced by mixing an aqueous enzyme liquid with an inorganic or organic carrier material to form an enzyme compound, extruding the enzyme compound, spheronizing the extrudate, and applying an outer coating layer of the coating system listed above to form an enzyme granule having a mean particle size of 0.8 to 1.4 millimeters. The coated enzyme granule has increased storage stability, even coloration, reduced odor, and releases enzyme activity quickly in water. The enzyme granule is useful in solid detergents.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1999Date of Patent: February 26, 2002Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft Auf Aktien (KGaA)Inventors: Kathleen Paatz, Wilfried Raehse, Werner Pichler, Beatrix Kottwitz
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Publication number: 20020009435Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having haloperoxidase activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2001Publication date: January 24, 2002Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Palle Schneider, Steffen Danielsen
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Patent number: 6329333Abstract: A paste-form detergent and process of making the detergent is presented. The detergent is composed of: 5 to 30 percent by weight of an ethoxylated alcohol of the formula R1—(OC2H4)m—OH where R1 is an alkyl or alkenyl group containing 9 to 15 carbon atoms and the average degree of ethoxylation m is 1 to 8; 1 to 20 percent by weight of an ethoxylated alcohol of the formula R2—(OC2H4)nOH where R2 is an alkyl or alkenyl group containing 12 to 22 carbon atoms and the average degree of ethoxylation n is 3 to 14, and n is greater than m by at least 1.0; 1 to 20 percent by weight of an alcohol or alkyl ether corresponding to the formula R3—O—R4 where R3 is an alkyl or alkenyl group containing 6 to 22 carbon atoms and R4 is hydrogen or an alkyl group containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms; 20 to 80 percent by weight of an alkalizing agent, and 0 to 15 percent by weight of an organic builder.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1999Date of Patent: December 11, 2001Assignee: Henkel-Ecolab GmbH & Co. OHGInventors: Thomas Merz, Khalil Shamayeli, Edgar Koeppelmann