Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
435042000 | Process involving micro-organisms of different genera in the same process, simultaneously | 31 |
20080213826 | Compound microbial preparation manufacturing process - A manufacturing process for making compound microbial preparation to improve soil quality, activate soil, effectively degrade soil pollution, and help growth of crops is comprised of having first individual cultivation of multiple single microbial series; each microbial series during the individual cultivation producing multiple life organisms; followed by crossing cultivation among those single microbial series in a specific sequence to develop a compound microbial preparation containing multiple single microbial series, multiple hormones produced by individual microbial series, and hormones produced by each single microbial series during the cross cultivation. | 09-04-2008 |
20080305516 | Method of Producing Antibodies - Methods for producing immunoglobulin molecules or immunologically functional immunoglobulin fragments, the fragments comprising at least functional portions of the variable domains of immunoglobulin heavy and light chains, are described. The methods comprise producing the heavy and the light chains in two separate host cells and refolding the immunoglobulin molecule or fragment ex vivo. | 12-11-2008 |
20090023182 | COMPLEMENTARY METABOLIZING ORGANISMS AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME - The invention provides a non-naturally occurring set of microbial organisms. The set of organisms includes: at least a first constituent complementary metabolizing organism (CMO) exhibiting the ability to metabolize a first carbon substrate and having substantially impaired metabolic capacity for a second carbon substrate, and at least a second constituent complementary metabolizing organism (CMO) exhibiting the ability to metabolize the second carbon substrate and having substantially impaired metabolic capacity for the first carbon substrate, wherein a co-culture of the at least first and second CMOs exhibit simultaneous metabolism of a mixture having the first and second carbon substrates compared to either CMO alone. Simultaneous metabolism of a mixture having first and second carbon substrates can include an enhanced rate of metabolism of the first and second substrates compared to either CMO alone. Also provided is a bioprocess for producing a chemical compound. The bioprocess includes co-culturing a non-naturally occurring set of microbial organisms in a mixture having at least a first and a second carbon substrate under conditions sufficient for biosynthesis of a target chemical compound, the set of non-naturally occurring microbial organisms including: at least a first constituent complementary metabolizing organism (CMO) exhibiting the ability to metabolize the first carbon substrate and having substantially impaired metabolic capacity for the second carbon substrate, and at least a second constituent complementary metabolizing organism (CMO) exhibiting the ability to metabolize the second carbon substrate and having substantially impaired metabolic capacity for the first carbon substrate, wherein a co-culture of the at least first and second CMOs exhibit simultaneous metabolism of a mixture having the first and second carbon substrates compared to either CMO alone. Simultaneous metabolism of a mixture having first and second carbon substrates can include an enhanced rate of metabolism of the first and second substrates compared to either CMO alone. | 01-22-2009 |
20090035812 | Microbial hydrogen-producing process and system thereof - The present invention provides a microbial hydrogen-producing process, comprising: providing at least one | 02-05-2009 |
20090298117 | METHODS FOR HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION OF SECONDARY METABOLITES - The invention provides a method for the heterologous expression of a secondary metabolite encoded by a biosynthetic pathway. Also provided is a method for introducing a large sized DNA molecule into the chromosome of a heterologous host using a transposable element. Novel myxochromide S derivatives are also provided. | 12-03-2009 |
20100003717 | Closed-Loop System for Growth of Algae or Cyanobacteria and Gasification of the Wet Biomass - Processes, systems, and methods for producing combustible gas from wet biomass are provided. In one aspect, for example, a process for generating a combustible gas from a wet biomass in a closed system is provided. Such a process may include growing a wet biomass in a growth chamber, moving at least a portion of the wet biomass to a reactor, heating the portion of the wet biomass under high pressure in the reactor to gasify the wet biomass into a total gas component, separating the gasified component into a liquid component, a non-combustible gas component, and a combustible gas component, and introducing the liquid component and non-combustible gas component containing carbon dioxide into the growth chamber to stimulate new wet biomass growth. | 01-07-2010 |
20100203581 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING BIOFILM - For the purpose of forming a biofilm having amount and strength sufficient for the immobilization of a cell mass, the present invention provides a method for producing a biofilm, characterized in that it comprises co-culturing lactic acid bacteria belonging to | 08-12-2010 |
20100311111 | Methods for Optimizing Production and Collection of Reusable Gases - Methods for increasing methane emitted from organic waste and for collecting methane and other gaseous bi-products. A gas collection unit collects gas in a first separation tank, wherein the gas is separated into methane and other components. The methane is collected, and other components are diverted. A second separation tank receives diverted components combined with an acidic solution and further separates the components into carbon dioxide and other compounds. The carbon dioxide is collected for reuse in a variety of applications. | 12-09-2010 |
20100330615 | PROCESS TO PRODUCE BIODIESEL AND/OR FUEL OIL - The present invention refers to a process to produce biodiesel and/or fuel oil from microbial oilseed and/or algal biomass and/or from sugar cane residues and derivatives. The products according to the present invention are appropriate for direct use in motors and to generate energy or steam. The integrated process of the present invention comprises the use, as raw materials, of microbial oil-producing biomass obtained from sugar cane residues and derivatives, which is integrated with algal biomass and/or glycerol and are processed by steps of production of oil-producing microbial biomass from filamentous fungi and/or yeasts, steps of simultaneous production of algal biomass by fully using residues, CO | 12-30-2010 |
20110151508 | BIODEGRADATION PROCESS AND COMPOSITION - Disclosed are novel microbial compositions and biodegradation processes to treat marine animal or marine animal by-products to produce solid, liquid and lipid fractions that contain useful compounds. | 06-23-2011 |
20110165618 | BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCTION OF COMMERCIALLY VALUABLE COMPOUNDS - The invention relates to systems and methods for production of compounds by yeast and other organisms. In one approach yeast engineered for production of a compound of commercial value is cultured together with a cellulosic bacteria, and the yeast uses a metabolic product produced by the bacteria as a carbon source. Methyl halides are an example of compounds that may be produced by this process. The invention also relates to production of organic compounds using genetically engineered organisms expressing a S-adenosylmethionine (SAM)-dependent methyl halide transferase. In one approach the organism, halides and a carbon source are incubated in a cultivation medium under conditions in which methyl halide is produced. The methyl halide may be collected and converted into non-halogenated organic molecules. | 07-07-2011 |
20110275118 | METHOD OF PRODUCING FATTY ACIDS FOR BIOFUEL, BIODIESEL, AND OTHER VALUABLE CHEMICALS - The present invention relates to a method of producing fatty acids, by inoculating a mixture of at least one of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin with a microorganism strain and an algae strain, and growing said inoculated strains under successive aerobic-heterotrophic and either anaerobic-phototrophic or anaerobic-heterotrophic conditions creating symbiosis between the strains. Under a first aerobic-heterotrophic condition, the microorganism strain produces extracellulases that hydrolyze cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, to produce sugars, such as glucose, cellobiose, xylose, mannose, galactose, rhamnose, arabinose or other hemicellulose sugars that are metabolized by the algae strain which also metabolizes acetic acid, glucose and hemicellulose from pretreatment. Then, either under a subsequent anaerobic-heterotrophic condition, the microorganism uses cellulose and produces fermentation products, and the algae strain uses part of the released sugars and exhibits a slower growth rate, or under a further anaerobic-phototrophic condition, the microorganism uses cellulose and produces fermentation products and CO | 11-10-2011 |
20110306089 | THERMOPHILIC METHANOGENIC CONSORTIUM FOR CONVERSION OF CELLULOSIC BIOMASS TO BIOENERGY - A system for the efficient conversion of plant biomass to methane is provided, where the conversion includes use of a thermophilic methanogenic consortium containing a cellulolytic thermophile, an acetate-oxidizing thermophile and a thermophilic methanogen, the combination of which hydrolyzes hexoses and pentoses, oxidizes acetate and provides a hydrogen sink, to convert plant biomass to the theoretical limit of bioenergy. | 12-15-2011 |
20120040396 | METHODS FOR PURIFYING BIO-ORGANIC COMPOUNDS - Methods and systems for purifying bio-organic compounds are described. In certain embodiments, the methods comprise the steps of (a) providing a composition or an emulsion comprising a surfactant, host cells, an aqueous medium and a bio-organic compound produced by the host cells, wherein the solubility of the surfactant in the aqueous medium decreases with increasing temperature and wherein the temperature of the composition or emulsion is at least about 1° C. below a phase inversion temperature of the composition or emulsion; (b) raising the temperature of the composition or emulsion to at least about 1° C. above the phase inversion temperature; and (c) performing a liquid/liquid separation of the composition to provide a crude bio-organic composition or emulsion. | 02-16-2012 |
20120115186 | FERMENTATIVE PRODUCTION OF ETHANOL FROM GLUCOSE, GALACTOSE AND ARABINOSE EMPLOYING A RECOMBINANT YEAST STRAIN - The present invention relates to a process for the production of one or more fermentation product from a sugar composition, comprising the following steps:
| 05-10-2012 |
20120142046 | Yeast Cells Expressing An Exogenous Cellulosome And Methods of Using The Same - The present invention relates to the engineering and expression of heterologous cellulosomes in microorganisms in order to facilitate the conversion of biomass to useful products. In some embodiments, the invention relates to the expression of scaffoldin proteins which form the nucleus of a cellulosome. Cellulases or other biomass-degrading enzymes can be non-covalently linked to the scaffoldin protein by virtue of a dockerin domain-cohesin domain interaction. | 06-07-2012 |
20120178123 | ENHANCED LIPID PRODUCTION FROM ALGAE - A method for stimulating enhanced lipid accumulation by algae includes growing algae in a bioreactor medium including nutrients. The algae have an average lipid content that averages a first % of total cell biomass. A stress inducing environmental condition is initiated that keeps the algae alive, stops cell reproduction, and induces the algae to accumulate additional lipids resulting in a second average lipid content that is at least 50% more than the first %. The method can include measuring a lipid concentration of the algae while under the stress inducing environmental condition, harvesting lipids from more than 50% but not all of the algae when the lipid concentration is above a predetermined lipid limit, adding fresh medium to the bioreactor medium having algae not involved in the harvesting therein, and repeating the method, wherein the algae not involved in harvesting serves as a source for new algae growth. | 07-12-2012 |
20120208230 | Em-Lacquer Water Solution Mixed with Natural Component, Method for Preparing Fermented Anti-Oxidant Material Using the Same, and Method for Processing the Material - The present invention relates to an EM-lacquer water solution mixed with a natural component, a method for preparing a fermented anti-oxidant material using the same, and a method for processing the material. Particularly, the EM-lacquer water solution mixed with a natural component is prepared by mixing an EM-lacquer solution, which is a mixture of a crude solution of effective micro-organisms (EM) 20˜35 weight percent and a lacquer water solution 65˜80 weight percent, and at least one natural component selected from a group comprising of organic brown sugar, bay salt, mandarin orange oil, Japanese apricot concentrate, | 08-16-2012 |
20120282651 | System and Method of Co-Cultivating Microalgae with Fungus - One of the most important technical barriers for algal biofuel is the substantial harvesting and extracting cost. The present invention includes a system and method for the pelletization of single cell microalgae through co-cultivation with filamentous fungi to enable the low cost separation of microalgae from liquid medium and to significantly increase the biomass and lipid yield. | 11-08-2012 |
20120315668 | Biodegradation Process and Composition - Disclosed are novel microbial compositions and biodegradation processes to treat marine animal or marine animal by-products to produce solid, liquid and lipid fractions that contain useful compounds. | 12-13-2012 |
20120329089 | METHODS OF GENERATING HYDROGEN - The present invention, in some embodiments thereof, relates to a photocatalytic method of generating hydrogen gas in algae, and, more particularly, but not exclusively, to algal-bacterial co-culture for enhancing the kinetics and improving the yield of algal hydrogen photoproduction. | 12-27-2012 |
20130040340 | PRODUCTION OF ALCOHOL ESTERS IN SITU USING ALCOHOLS AND FATTY ACIDS PRODUCED BY MICROORGANISMS - Fatty acid alcohol esters that may be used as biodiesel are synthesized from microbially produced alcohol and fatty acids using an in situ process. The process utilizes a catalyst capable of esterifying the alcohol and fatty acid products of microorganisms, which are produced from renewable resources. | 02-14-2013 |
20130171690 | Method and Device for the Production of a Fertilizer Precursor and of a Fertilizer - The invention relates to a method and a device for the production of a fertilizer precursor or of a fertilizer. The method comprises the following method steps: a) production of an acidic source solution ( | 07-04-2013 |
20130210071 | CONSOLIDATED BIOPROCESSING METHOD USING THERMOPHILIC MICROORGANISMS - The present invention is directed to a method of converting biomass to biofuel, and particularly to a consolidated bioproces sing method using a co-culture of thermophilic and extremely thermophilic microorganisms which collectively can ferment the hexose and pentose sugars produced by degradation of cellulose and hemicelluloses at high substrate conversion rates. A culture medium therefor is also provided as well as use of the methods to produce and recover cellulosic ethanol. | 08-15-2013 |
20140087420 | NOVEL MICROORGANISM RHIZOBIUM SP. KB10 HAVING PROPERTIES OF PROMOTING GROWH OF BOTRYOCOCCUS BRAUNII AND INCREASING FATTY ACID CONTENT - The present invention relates to | 03-27-2014 |
20140099665 | Paenibacillus Spp. and Methods for Fermentation of Lignocellulosic Materials - Provided herein are methods for producing a fermentation product, such as ethanol, by co-culture of a member of the genus | 04-10-2014 |
20140199726 | PRODUCTION OF BIOFUEL FROM TISSUE CULTURE SOURCES - The present invention provides a method for the production of at least one fatty acid and/or oil from a plant cell suspension culture, the method comprising (i) maintaining a cell suspension culture of oil-producing plant cells under conditions such that the cultured cells synthesise and secrete at least one fatty acid and/or oil into the cell suspension culture medium; and (ii) extracting the thus secreted at least one fatty acid and/or oil from the cell suspension culture medium. | 07-17-2014 |
20150125901 | BIOCONVERSION PROCESSES AND APPARATUS - Bioconversion processes are disclosed in which two or more biocatalysts including microorganisms or isolated enzymes that are substantially irreversibly retained in the interior of an open, porous, highly hydrophilic polymer are used in a common aqueous medium. In one exemplary embodiment, one biocatalyst produces a chemical product that is a substrate to at least one other biocatalyst. In another exemplary embodiment, the feed includes two or more substrates and one biocatalyst bioconverts at least one substrate and another biocatalyst bioconverts at least one other substrate. This aspect is particularly useful for treating water including disparate contaminants by metabolic degradation in a bioreaction zone including multiple types of biocatalysts. | 05-07-2015 |
20150132799 | METHODS TO INCREASE AND HARVEST DESIRED METABOLITE PRODUCTION IN ALGAE - 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. | 05-14-2015 |
20150140602 | METHODS AND MICROBIAL CULTURES FOR IMPROVED CONVERSION OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS - The present technology pertains to methods and microbial co-cultures for converting lignocellulosic biomass to biofuels and/or other carbon-based chemicals. Aspects of the present disclosure relate to novel consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) methods by which the efficiency of the production of biofuels and/or other carbon-based chemicals from cellulosic biomass-containing materials can be increased. In particular, the present disclosure provides numerous microbiological co-cultures for increasing the efficiency of ethanol and/or lactic acid production from biomass. | 05-21-2015 |
20160186218 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN, METHANE, VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS, AND ALCOHOLS FROM ORGANIC MATERIAL - A method for producing H | 06-30-2016 |