Acyclic Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturation In The Acid Moiety Patents (Class 554/223)
  • Publication number: 20130267450
    Abstract: A composition that includes one or more compounds represented by the formula A(B)x wherein A is the residue of an aromatic compound, B is the residue of an unsaturated hydrocarbon ester, and x is a value of 1 or greater. The composition has a viscosity (Kv100) from 2 to 40 at 100° C., and a viscosity index (VI) from 100 to 200. The disclosure also relates to a process for producing the composition, a lubricating oil base stock and lubricating oil containing the composition, and a method for improving one or more of solubility and dispersancy of polar additives in a lubricating oil by using as the lubricating oil a formulated oil containing the composition. The lubricating oils containing the composition are advantageous as engine oils that can improve engine fuel efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Abhimanyu O. Patil, Satish Bodige
  • Publication number: 20130261146
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for stimulating nitric oxide production in mammalian cells, the pharmaceutical composition including at least one compound selected from a group consisting of: 2,3-dihydroxypropyl oleate; bis(m-phenoxyphenyl) ether; 6-acetyl-5,6,6a,7-tetrahydro-4H-dibezo(de,g)quinoline; and (+)-N-(p-(2-methylbutoxy)benzylidene)-4-(2-methylbutyl)aniline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: The Research Foundation of State University of New York
    Inventors: George B. Stefano, Wei Zhu, Kirk Mantione, Richard M. Kream
  • Publication number: 20130261099
    Abstract: Fatty acid inhibitors, pharmaceutical compositions including fatty acid inhibitors, methods for using fatty acid inhibitors to treat a variety of diseases, and methods for preparing fatty acid inhibitors are provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Bruce BRANCHAUD
  • Publication number: 20130234060
    Abstract: Compositions including a polar heat transfer fluid that was passed through a vessel containing a catalyst are disclosed. Preferred catalysts can comprise copper, polyamide, stainless steel, or a combination thereof. Compositions can also comprise one or more types of long chain fatty acids, preferably from food oils, and preferably fatty acids that have been activated by virtue of having been passed through a vessel comprising a catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Inventor: Bob Lee Davis
  • Publication number: 20130225837
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel trans-2-decenoic acid derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and to provide a pharmaceutical agent which contains said compound as an active ingredient and has a highly safe neurotrophic factor-like activity or an alleviating action for side effect induced by administration of anti-cancer agents. The trans-2-decenoic acid derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof which is the compound of the present invention is specifically represented by the formula (1): (In the formula, Y is —O—, —NR— or —S—, R is hydrogen atom, alkyl group, dialkylaminoalkyl group or the like and W is a substituent such as dialkylaminoalkyl group) and has a quite high usefulness as a pharmaceutical agent such as a preventive or therapeutic agent for dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, depression, etc., a treating or repairing agent for spinal cord injury.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicants: Nippon Zoki Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute
    Inventors: Munekazu Iinuma, Shoei Furukawa, Mitsuru Naiki, Tomonori Matsumoto, Hachiro Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20130210934
    Abstract: Biodegradable flavoring agent compositions comprising 1,3-propanediol are provided, and the 1,3-propanediol in the composition is biologically derived. The compositions exhibit a lower anthropogenic CO2 emission profile. Also provided are biodegradable flavoring agent compositions comprising an ester of 1,3-propanediol. In these compositions, the ester can have at least 3% biobased carbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: DuPont Run & Lyle Bio Products Company, LLC
    Inventor: DuPont Run & Lyle Bio Products Company, LLC
  • Publication number: 20130197086
    Abstract: This invention refers to a procedure for obtaining fatty acids of pharmacological and nutritional interest that comprises the steps of feeding a gas comprising CO2 into a reactor that contains a culture that comprises at least one species of microalgae capable of photosynthesis, the process of photosynthesis by the species of microalgae from the CO2 supplied, producing a biomass that contains a general formula (I) compound: extraction of the general formula (I) compound from the biomass obtained and concentration and/or purification of this compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventor: Bernard A. J. Stroïazzo Mougin
  • Publication number: 20130190518
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a terpenoid derivative, the process comprising a metathesis of an olefin and a terpenoid, and to terpenoid derivatives prepared with said process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Rennes
    Inventors: Marc Mauduit, Frédéric Caijo, Christophe Crévisy
  • Publication number: 20130165679
    Abstract: A kind of ?-glucosidase inhibitor, composing of mainly an unsaturated fatty acid composition, that acts to inhibit the decomposition of starch and disaccharides in the small intestine as well as slowing down the absorption of glucose, and thus achieving the objective of its application in preventing or treating diabetes and obesity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: KANG JIAN BIOTECH CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Lean Teik NG, Chun-Han Su, Min-Nan Lai
  • Publication number: 20130158070
    Abstract: Novel chemical conjugates derived from unsaturated fatty acids and therapeutically active agents, are disclosed. The chemical conjugates are designed and characterized as COX-2 and/or 5-LOX inhibitors and are useful in the treatment of inflammatory diseases and disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, asthma, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, pain, primary dysmenorrhea, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventor: Taher Nassar
  • Publication number: 20130150599
    Abstract: The invention provides recombinant host organisms (e.g., plants) genetically modified with a polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) synthase system and one or more accessory proteins (e.g., PPTase and/or ACoAS) that allow for and/or improve the production of PUFAs in the host organism. The present invention also relates to methods of making and using such organisms (e.g., to obtain PUFAs) as well as products obtained from such organisms (e.g., oil and/or seed).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Inventors: Terence A. Walsh, Ann Owens Merlo, Daniel Gachotte, Paul Gordon Roessler, Scott Bevan, Jerry M. Kuner, James G. Metz
  • Publication number: 20130131365
    Abstract: A bromine/nitro moiety linked into the backbone of an ester or other compound over a wide range of occurrence rates provides antimicrobial, bio-resistant and fungal resistant properties for metal working fluids (MWF)s and other coatings. The moiety can be have the bromo and nitro groups linked to the same or different carbon atoms. The present invention also relates to urethanes, urea, amides, imides, carbonates, ethers, siloxanes, and many other types of linkages essential to MWF bases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventor: Thomas Daly
  • Publication number: 20130129775
    Abstract: Disclosed here are compositions rich in omega-7 fatty acids, including palmitoleic acid, and products rich in omega-7 fatty acids derived from algal biomass. The algae and/or compositions rich in omega-7 fatty acids may be used in products or as ingredients of products. Methods and systems for increasing the production or concentration of omega-7 fatty acids, and isolating omega-7 fatty acids from algal biomass are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: HELIAE DEVELOPMENT, LLC
    Inventor: Heliae Development, LLC
  • Publication number: 20130123524
    Abstract: A continuous process for the dry fractionation of edible oils and fats using one or more crystallisers in series, said process comprising the steps of: (a) providing a molten fat; (b) continuously feeding said molten oil or fat to the first of said one or more crystallisers in series in which the fat is gradually cooled by using heat exchangers containing a cooling medium so that a crystal slurry is formed, each of said one or more crystallisers exhibiting a temperature gradient, the temperature at the point where the molten or partially crystallised fat enters one of the crystallisers being higher than that at the point where the slurry leaves that crystalliser; (c) continuously withdrawing said slurry from the last of said one or more crystallisers; (d) separating said crystal slurry by filtration in a filter cake and a filtrate, wherein said process further comprises the step of at least partially melting fat encrustations deposited on said heat exchangers; and an oil fraction produced by therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: DESMET BALLESTRA GROUP N.V.
    Inventor: DESMET BALLESTRA GROUP N.V.
  • Publication number: 20130109873
    Abstract: This invention relates to a corn oil composition comprising unrefined corn oil having a free fatty acid content of less than about 5 weight percent, and methods for producing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventor: POET RESEARCH, INC.
  • Publication number: 20130102554
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for treatment of obesity using a wheat bran extract or a tachioside or 9,12,13-trihydroxy-10(E)-octadecenoic acid, an active ingredient isolated therefrom. The wheat bran extract or the active ingredients inhibit the expression of PPAR?, C/EBR? and ADD1/SREBP1c, transcription factors which inhibit the differentiation of adipocyte progenitor cells to adipocytes, promoted by insulin, inhibit the accumulation of fats, and are centrally involved in the differentiation of adipocytes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventors: Hai Soo Lee, Ok Pho Zee, Joa Sub Oh, Eun Kyung Ahn, Jung A. Lee, Seong Su Hong
  • Publication number: 20130096331
    Abstract: A method of producing a interesterified oil includes providing sunflower oil comprising no more than about 4% total saturated fat and interesterifying the sunflower oil. Another method of producing a interesterified oil includes providing sunflower oil comprising about 3.3% or less total combined palmitic acid (16:0) and stearic acid (18:0), and interesterifying the sunflower oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventor: Dow AgroSciences LLC
  • Publication number: 20130039872
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of an ester in a reactor, a device, a process for the preparation of a thermoplastic composition comprising the ester prepared according to the invention, a process for the production of a shaped article comprising the ester according to the invention or the thermoplastic composition according to the invention, a process for the production of a packed product, a process for the production of an at least partly coated object, and uses of the esters according to the invention as an additive in various compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Peter Daute, Wilhelm Reiners, Martin Schäfer, Udo Frerichs, Hinrich Hildebrandt, Joern Ellerbrake
  • Publication number: 20130004646
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for the production of food compositions, oils, fuels, oleochemicals, and other compounds in recombinant 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 lipase, a sucrose transporter, a sucrose invertase, a fructokinase, a polysaccharide-degrading enzyme, a keto acyl-ACP synthase enzyme, a fatty acyl-ACP thioesterase, a fatty acyl-CoA/aldehyde reductase, a fatty acyl-CoA reductase, a fatty aldehyde reductase, a fatty aldehyde decarbonylase, and/or an acyl carrier protein are useful in manufacturing food compositions, and transportation fuels such as renewable diesel, biodiesel, and renewable jet fuel, as well as oleochemicals such as functional fluids, surfactants, soaps and lubricants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: Solazyme, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Franklin, Aravind Somanchi, Janice Wee, George Rudenko, Jeffrey L. Moseley, Walt Rakitsky
  • Publication number: 20120302777
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventor: Misa Ochiai
  • Patent number: 8314262
    Abstract: The invention broadly relates to the use of ?,?-unsaturated fatty acids to inhibit the filamentous growth of fungi and yeasts and to a method for producing same. In particular the invention relates to the use of optionally substituted C8 to C15 ?,?-unsaturated fatty acids or salts, esters or amides thereof for inhibiting or retarding the yeast-to-mycelium transition of organisms having a dimorphic life cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Lian-Hui Wang, Lian-Hui Zhang
  • Publication number: 20120269951
    Abstract: The present invention is based on the finding that stearin fats, obtainable by dry or solvent fractionation of sunflower high-stearic and high-oleic oils, optionally with seeding with tempered stearin crystals, have a high solid fat content at temperatures higher than 30° C., even higher than cocoa butter or other high saturated tropical fats with a similar disaturated triacylglycerol content due to the presence of disaturated triacylgiycerols rich in stearic acid, and improved melting point due to the presence of arachidic and behenic acids in these disaturated triacylgiycerols, being at the same time healthier that actual fats made from palm, palm kernel and coconut oils, or hydrogenated and trasesterified vegetable oils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)
    Inventors: Joaquín Jesús Salas Linan, Enrique Martinez Force, Miguel Angel Bootello García, Mónica Venegas Calerón, Rafael Garcés
  • Publication number: 20120264923
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal compound that can be used as a base for injection formulations. The present invention provides an amphipathic compound having the following general formula (I): wherein X and Y each denotes a hydrogen atom or together denote an oxygen atom, n denotes an integer from 0 to 2, m denotes the integer 1 or 2, and R denotes a hydrophilic group generated by removal of one hydroxyl group from any one selected from the group consisting of glycerol, erythritol, pentaerythritol, diglycerol, triglycerol, xylose, sorbitol, ascorbic acid, glucose, galactose, mannose, dipentaerythritol, maltose, mannitol, and xylitol; as well as a base for injection formulations and depot formulation comprising the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: Chemgenesis Incorporated
    Inventors: Yutaka Ikeda, Jun Yamashita, Ichiro Hijikuro, Satoshi Imuta, Yasuhiro HIroki, Takashi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20120264959
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical agent having high safety and a neurotrophic factor-like activity, which contains, as an active ingredient, any one compound included in fatty acids each having 8 carbon atoms (C8) or having 10 carbon atoms (C10) to 12 carbon atoms (C12) or fatty acid esters thereof, such as 3,7-dimethyloctanoic acid ethyl ester, geranic acid ethyl ester, and the like, each of which has 8 carbon atoms (C8), decanoic acid methyl ester, trans-2-decenoic acid, trans-2-decenoic acid methyl ester, trans-2-decenoic acid ethyl ester, trans-2-decenoic acid-2-decenyl ester, trans-2-decenoic acid cyclohexyl ester, trans-2-decenoic acid isopropyl ester, trans-3-decenoic acid methyl ester, trans-9-decenoic acid methyl ester, and the like, each of which has 10 carbon atoms (C10), trans-10-undecenoic acid methyl ester, trans-10-undecenoic acid ethyl ester, and the like, each of which has 11 carbon atoms (C11), and dodecanoic acid, and the like, each of which has 12 carbon atoms (C12), or salts
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicants: NIPPON ZOKI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD., NAGOYA INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Munekazu IINUMA, Shoei FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20120238770
    Abstract: Vegetable oils having a low level of glycidol esters are disclosed. Methods for reduction of the content of glycidol esters in edible oils are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND COMPANY
    Inventors: Scott Bloomer, Phil Hogan, John Inmok Lee, Mark Matlock, Lisa M. Pfalzgraf, Leif Solheim, Lori E. Wicklund
  • Publication number: 20120219709
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of using at least one functionalized hydroxycarboxylic acid oligomer as an adhesive for bonding materials. Also described is a process for manufacturing functionalized hydroxycarboxylic acid oligomers including at least one stage for polycondensation of a hydroxycarboxylic acid and a functional agent, as well as functionalized hydroxycarboxylic acid oligomers that can be obtained and the adhesive compositions that include them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: VALAGRO CARBONE RENOUVELABLE POITOU-CHARENTES
    Inventors: Antoine Piccirilli, Cedric Dever
  • Publication number: 20120214920
    Abstract: A plasticizer composition comprising vicinally diacylated fatty acid esters derived from renewable feedstocks, and a process for the preparation thereof, are disclosed. A composition comprising a halogen-containing polymer and a plasticizer composition comprising the vicinally diacylated fatty acid esters is also described. A method for plasticizing halogen-containing polymers, such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins is provided. The plasticizer compositions may be added to PVC resins in amounts ranging between 1 and 200 phr.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: GALATA CHEMICALS LLC.
    Inventor: Peter FRENKEL
  • Publication number: 20120214891
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polyester polyols based on aromatic dicarboxylic acids or derivatives thereof and to the use of the polyester polyols for producing polyurethanes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Lionel GEHRINGER, Gunnar KAMPF, Sirus ZARBAKHSH, Joachim-Thierry ANDERS
  • Publication number: 20120208732
    Abstract: This invention relates to base ester compounds and complex ester compounds that can be used as a base stock for lubricant applications or a base stock blend component for use in a finished lubricant or for particular applications, and methods of making the same. The base ester compounds and complex esters described herein comprise dimer and/or trimer esters, and their respective branched derivatives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventors: Suresh Narine, Shaojun Li, Ali Mahdevari, Laziz Bouzidi, Stephen Augustine DiBiase, Syed Q.A. Rizvi
  • Publication number: 20120174266
    Abstract: According to the invention, there are provided novel canola cultivars, seeds of canola cultivars, to the plants, or plant parts, of novel canola cultivars and to methods for producing a canola plants produced by crossing the novel canola cultivars with themselves or another canola cultivar, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of the canola cultivars. The novel canola cultivar(s) include canola plants having a desired trait that includes an oleic acid value of about 70% and a yield greater than about 2100 kg/ha, and oils canola seeds having an oleic acid content of greater than about 70% and an ?-linolenic acid value of less than about 3%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: AGRIGENETICS, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Kubik, Van L. Ripley, Michelle E. Beaith
  • Publication number: 20120125458
    Abstract: A method is provided for preventing copper and zinc from being eluted from a copper-alloy-made plumbing instrument that includes valves and pipe joints and suppresses copper and zinc from being eluted from the copper-alloy-made plumbing instrument while using for the plumbing instrument copper alloy as-is that includes bronze and brass, to provide a copper-alloy-made plumbing instrument using the method and to provide a film-forming agent. The method forms on at least a liquid-contact portion of the copper-alloy-made plumbing instrument a film of an organic substance comprising unsaturated fatty acid and coating with the film both copper and zinc in the surface layer of the liquid-contact portion of the plumbing instrument, thereby suppressing the elution of copper and zinc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventor: Norikazu SUGAYA
  • Publication number: 20120122192
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of manufacturing oils and oil-based products such as transportation fuels, industrial chemicals, edible oils, lubricants and plastics using sugar cane, sugar cane juice, corn steep liquor, corn starch or depolymerized cellulosic material as a feedstock for bioproduction processes. The disclosed processes utilize oil-bearing microbes as a food source and as a conversion technology to convert chemical energy produced by various fixed carbon sources into edible oils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: SOLAZYME, INC.
    Inventors: Donald E. Trimbur, Chung-Soon Im, Harrison F. Dillon, Anthony G. Day, Scott Franklin, Anna Coragliotti
  • Publication number: 20120121745
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling Limnoperna sp., particularly, golden mussels are provided using Pseudomonas sp. suspension or compounds and compositions derived from said suspension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: MARRONE BIO INNOVATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Sarahann Rackl, Marja Koivunen, Pamela Marrone, Huazhang Huang, Ratnakar Asolkar
  • Publication number: 20120123141
    Abstract: Extract of oil rich in saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids containing oil extracted from insect larvae comprising saturated, MUFA and PUFA fatty acids and procedure for obtaining oil extract.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventor: Benjamin Patricio Araneda Herrera
  • Publication number: 20120087882
    Abstract: Provided are polyglyceryl compositions comprising one or more polyglyceryl compounds having: (a) a node structure comprising at least three contiguous glyceryl remnant units; (b) one or more cationic groups each linked to the node structure by an independently selected linking group; and (c) one or more hydrophobic moieties each independently (i) linked to the node structure by a linking group, or (ii) constituting a portion of one of the one or more cationic groups, wherein the composition has an average degree of polymerization determined by hydroxyl value testing (DPOH) of from about 3 to about 20. Also provided are polyglyceryl compounds which may compose such compositions, and uses of the polyglyceryl compositions and compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Inventors: Michael J. Fevola, Frank C. Sun, Stacey E. York
  • Patent number: 8148561
    Abstract: A storage-stable, smooth-feeling, non-comedogenic fatty acid ester mixture of 2-ethylhexanol and fatty acids comprising 2-ethylhexyl fatty acid esters, wherein the aggregate amount of C12 and C14 2-ethylhexyl fatty acid esters is 85% or more of the mixture, based on the total weight of all fatty acid esters in the mixture, which mixtures are useful in or as an oil component of a cosmetic or pharmaceutical preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Cognis IP Management GmbH
    Inventors: Achim Ansmann, Rolf Kawa, Lars Zander
  • Publication number: 20120073186
    Abstract: Provided herein are blends oils or fatty acids comprising more than 50% medium chain fatty acids, or the fatty acid alkyl esters thereof, and having low melting points. Such blends are useful as a fuel or as a starting material for the production of, for example, a biodiesel. Also provided genetically altered or modified plants, modified such that the amount of medium chain fatty acids generated by the plant are increased. Further provided is a method of predicting the melting point of a blend of fatty acid methyl esters and the use of such a method for identifying blends suitable for use as, for example, a biodiesel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventors: Mark Knuth, Peter R. Beetham, Keith Walker, Greg F. W. Gocal
  • Patent number: 8143034
    Abstract: A method and process for the preparation of ricinoleic acid analogs and oligomers and polymers containing such ricinoleic acid analogs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Polytechnic Institute of New York University
    Inventors: Richard A. Gross, Wenhua Lu, Yixin Yang
  • Publication number: 20120071390
    Abstract: Biodegradable detergent compositions comprising 1,3-propanediol are provided, and the 1,3-propanediol in the composition is biologically derived. The compositions exhibit a lower anthropogenic CO2 emission profile. Also provided are biodegradable detergent compositions comprising an ester of 1,3-propanediol. In these compositions, the ester can have at least 3% biobased carbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Inventors: Gyorgyi Fenyvesi, Melissa Joerger, Robert Miller, Raja Hari Poladi, Ann Wehner
  • Publication number: 20120070868
    Abstract: Recombinant microbial cells are provided which have been engineered to produce fatty acid derivatives having linear chains containing an odd number of carbon atoms by the fatty acid biosynthetic pathway. Also provided are methods of making odd chain fatty acid derivatives using the recombinant microbial cells, and compositions comprising odd chain fatty acid derivatives produced by such methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: LS9, INC.
    Inventors: Grace J. Lee, John R. Haliburton, Zhihao Hu, Andreas W. Schirmer
  • Publication number: 20120065419
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Dubois, Claire Bourlieu-Lacanal, Jerome Lecomte, Eric Dubreucq, Pierre Villeneuve
  • Publication number: 20120052042
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to amphiphilic compounds, self assembling compositions formed from the amphiphilic compounds and methods of making such compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventors: Sébastien Ladet, Philippe Gravagna
  • Publication number: 20120035224
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds derived from betulin, and to the use thereof in plant pest control, particularly as antifeedants for butterfly larvae, beetles and snails. Further, the invention relates to novel betulin derivatives and methods for the production thereof either directly from betulin, or via intermediates derived therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: Valtion teknillinen tutkimuskeskus
    Inventors: Sami Alakurtti, Jari Yli-Kauhaluoma, Taru Mäkelä, Salem Koskimies, Pia Bergström, Heikki Hokkanen, Ingeborg Menzler-Hokkanen
  • Publication number: 20120028359
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a production process of a gender-specific serum and a biomarker using the serum. More specifically, the present invention uses a fatty acid that exhibits a specific expression pattern in a gender-specific serum as a biomarker not only for diagnosis of obesity or a disease related to obesity, but also for diagnosis of meat quality since the fatty acid promotes differentiation of muscle derived stem cells into adipose cells. In addition, the present invention can establish a research system studying the effects of steroid hormones on the cell culture by using sera separated from blood that is collected from individual mammal carcasses being disposed, and provide important clues for discovering a gene associated with the synthesis of steroid hormone and for developing treatments for human diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: In Ho Choi, Dong Mok Lee, Jong Soo Chang, Hyun Jeong Lee, Eun Ju Lee, Bajracharya Prati, Yu Mi Shin
  • Publication number: 20120009239
    Abstract: Naturally occurring lecithins and/or oleic acid stimulate the growth and lactic acid producing activity of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium species of probiotic bacteria, and replace polysorbate 80 for those products. They can be used in naturally occurring form, or where they are to be combined with probiotics in a carrier, or they can be treated to yield a stable powdered form of these naturally oily compounds. They can be sold as combined prebiotic/probiotic formulations in the same carrier, or sold as separate dietary supplements, e.g., in capsule or tablet form, to be used with the probiotic formulation as desired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: MASTER SUPPLEMENTS, INC.
    Inventors: Randolph S. Porubcan, Sonja Lea Yonak
  • Publication number: 20120003198
    Abstract: The invention relates to the improvement of visual performance, particularly of visual performance in the darkness, by administration of a colorant that is capable of being incorporated into eye tissue and/or causing yellowing of eye tissue, especially carotenoids, such as lutein and zeaxanthin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.
    Inventors: Felix Barker, Regina Goralczyk, Wolfgang Schalch
  • Patent number: 8076497
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the production of oil and fat containing acylglycerol esters including diacylglycerols, medium-chain and long-chain fatty acid triacyglycerols comprising esterification reaction between an acyl group donor and an acyl group acceptor in the presence of a heterogeneous chemical catalyst consisting of an ion-exchange resin preparation to obtain a reaction fluid that is further subjected to dehydration and at least one separation method, thus producing diacylglycerols and/or medium-chain and long-chain fatty acid triacyglycerols at a high yield in a short period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignees: Universiti Putra Malaysia, Golden Hope Research Sendirian Berhad
    Inventors: Oi Ming Lai, Mohd Suria Affandi Yusoff, Seong Koon Lo, Kamariah Long, Chin Ping Tan, Shawaluddin Tahiruddin, Khairudin Hashim
  • Publication number: 20110295028
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for obtaining a lipid from a cell by lysing the cell, contacting the cell with a base and/or salt, and separating the lipid. The present invention is also directed to a lipid prepared by the processes of the present invention. The present invention is also directed to microbial lipids having a particular anisidine value, peroxide value, and/or phosphorus content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: Stephen Robert Cherinko, Robert Cody Kertis, Kirk E. Apt, Paul Warren Behrens, Jon Milton Hansen, Joseph W. Pfeifer, III, Tracey Lynn Stahl, Ross Zirkle, Nasrin Tabayeh Burke, Krishna Raman, Neil Francis Leininger
  • Publication number: 20110288320
    Abstract: A process for the removal of impurities from fatty materials comprising the steps of providing a fatty material that may already have undergone some purification treatment, adding an aqueous suspension of liquid adsorbent to the fatty material and causing it to form a mixture with the fatty material, optionally adding some water to the mixture, and forming an aqueous phase separate from the fatty material and removing the aqueous phase from the fatty material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventors: Massoud Jalalpoor, Patrick Brems, Wim DeGreyt, Marc Kellens
  • Publication number: 20110268800
    Abstract: A preparation having at least one unsaturated fatty acid and the use of at least one unsaturated fatty acid having a chain length of 18 or 20 carbon atoms and of plant drugs containing the unsaturated fatty acid as a free fatty acid or a fatty acid radical of a triglyceride. The fatty acid has a chain length of 18 carbon atoms which are provided with 1 to 3 double bonds and the fatty acid has a chain length of 20 carbon atoms which are provided with 1 to 4 double bonds. The double bond or one of the double bonds are located in position 9 or 11 of the carbon chain. The unsaturated fatty acid is supplied in the all-cis configuration. The at least one unsaturated fatty acid prevents and/or treats or is used for producing a preparation for preventing and/or treating thrombosis and thromboembolic diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG
    Inventor: Hans-Rainer Hoffmann