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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8143023 | Method for methanol independent induction from methanol inducible promoters in A method for producing a polypeptide in a methylotrophic yeast host cell is described, where expression of the polypeptide is controlled by a methanol inducible promoter, including: i) expression of a positive regulator from a non-native promoter, the positive regul... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8124379 | Signal peptide for producing a polypeptide The present invention relates to a method for producing a polypeptide comprising using a signal peptide, to nucleic acid constructs comprising a first nucleotide sequence encoding the signal peptide and a second nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide which is fo... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8119387 | Polypeptides of strain sp. P203 A new strain Bacillus sp. P203 (Bacillus plakortiensis) is disclosed. Isolated mature functional polypeptide which is obtainable from the bacterium strain Bacillus sp. P203 deposited under accession number DSM 17419 are disclosed. ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8088598 | Fungal transcriptional activator useful in methods for producing polypeptides The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid sequences encoding polypeptides having transcriptional activation activity and to the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors and host cells comprising the nucleic acid seque... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8071345 | Stabilized subtilisin composition The present invention relates to a liquid detergent composition comprising a surfactant, a subtilisin and a protease stabilizer that is 3-chlorobenzoic acid, 4-chlorobenzoic acid, 3-chlorophenylacetic acid, 3,5-dichlorobenzoic acid, 3-(3-chlorophenyl)propionic acid ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8017351 | Amylases for pharmaceutical use The pharmaceutical use of amylases related to Bacillus alpha-amylases of SEQ ID NOs: 1-3, optionally in combination with a lipase and/or a protease. Examples of medical indications are: Treatment of digestive disorders, pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (PEI)... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7960332 | Stabilization of granules A coated granule including a core. The core includes a uniform mixture of a detergent enzyme having an alkaline pH activity optimum, and an acidic buffer component. The acidic buffer component has a pH of 1 to below 7 when measured as a 10% aqueous solution with a p... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7951556 | Mutated prokaryotic cells with high secretion-levels A mutated prokaryotic cell, which secretes higher amounts of at least one heterologous polypeptide of interest and which has a reduced expression-level of YusZ or YusX, or homologues thereof, when compared with an otherwise isogenic but non-mutated cell, and methods... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7951267 | Enzymatic hydrolysis of a polymer comprising vinyl acetate monomer The invention relates to the use of certain lipolytic enzymes such as cutinases and lipases in the manufacture of paper and paper products from recycled paper. Examples of such enzymes are derived from strains of Humicola, Candida, Fusarium and Pseudomonas... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7919275 | Oxaloacetate hydrolase deficient fungal host cells An isolated mutant host cell produced by disrupting or deleting, in a parent cell, a nucleic acid sequence encoding an oxaloacetate hydrolase, or a promoter thereof, which results in the mutant cell producing less of the oxaloacetate hydrolase than the parent cell i... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7892814 | Heat-stable carbonic anhydrases and their use The present invention relates to use of heat-stable carbonic anhydrase in CO2 extraction, e.g., from flue gas, natural gas or biogas. Furthermore, the invention relates to isolated polypeptides having carbonic anhydrase activity at elevated temperatures a... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7858360 | Use of fungal mutants for expression of antibodies The disclosure relates to a filamentous fungal cell in which an endogenous alkaline protease activity, an endogenous neutral metalloprotease activity, an endogenous serine protease activity, and an endogenous kexin maturase activity have been completely or partially... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7855059 | Fermentation with cyclic pulse-pause feeding A process for the production of a valuable compound, comprising the steps of a) fermentation of a filamentous bacterial or fungal strain (e.g. a Streptomyces strain or an Aspergillus strain) in a fermentation medium wherein a carbohydrate during fermen... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7803575 | Heat-stable carbonic anhydrases and their use The present invention relates to use of heat-stable carbonic anhydrase in CO2 extraction, e.g., from flue gas, natural gas or biogas. Furthermore, the invention relates to isolated polypeptides having carbonic anhydrase activity at elevated temperatures a... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7794997 | Alkaline amylase This invention relates to an amylase derived from Bacillus horikoshii. The amylase has a preference for soluble substrates, shows substantial exo-amylase activity and has a pH optimum of about 9.8. ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7700322 | Method for stable gene-amplification in a bacterial host cell A bacterial host cell comprising at least two copies of an amplification unit in its genome, said amplification unit comprising: i) at least one copy of a gene of interest, and ii) an expressible conditionally essential gene, wherein the conditionally essential gene... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7659101 | Alkaline amylase This invention relates to an amylase derived from Bacillus horikoshii. The amylase has a preference for soluble substrates, shows substantial exo-amylase activity and has a pH optimum of about 9.8. ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7632799 | Process for preparing coated enzyme granules with salt coatings The present invention relates to a process for preparing coated granules comprising the steps of: (a) providing a core unit comprising an active component (b) contacting the core unit with a liquid dispersion comprising a solvent, a dissolved salt and solid disperse... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7625737 | Alpha-amylase mutants The present invention relates to alpha-amylase variants having mutations corresponding to one or more of the following mutations A181E,D,Q,N,V; I201W,F,L; Q264R,D,K,E; Y290R,E,K; and S334A,V,T,L,I,D (using SEQ ID No. 2 for numbering). ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7601527 | α-amylase variants The invention relates to a variant of a parent Termamyl-like α-amylase, comprising mutations in two, three, four, five or six regions/positions. The variants have increased stability at high temperatures (relative to the parent). The invention also relates to a DNA... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7566561 | Alpha-amylase mutants The invention relates to a novel Termamyl-like alpha-amylase, and Termamyl-like alpha-amylases comprising mutations in two, three, four, five or six regions/positions. The variants have increased thermostability at acidic pH and/or at low Ca2+ concentrati... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7534762 | Polypeptides having antimicrobial activity and polynucleotides encoding same The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having antimicrobial activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as meth... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7527947 | Signal peptide for producing a polypeptide The present invention relates to a method for producing a polypeptide comprising using a signal peptide, to nucleic acid constructs comprising a first nucleotide sequence encoding the signal peptide and a second nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide which is fo... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7521204 | host cell A Bacillus licheniformis mutant host cell derived from a parent B. licheniformis host cell, which mutant host cell is mutated in one or more gene(s) encoding one or more secreted polypeptide(s) which is at least 80% identical to one or more of the poly... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7517668 | Process for the production of protein products in aspergillus A process for expression of a protein product in Aspergillus oryzae is disclosed. The process comprises transforming Aspergillus oryzae with a vector system comprising DNA-sequences encoding functions facilitating gene expression, a suitable marker for... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7498158 | Alpha-amylase variant with altered properties The present invention relates to variants (mutants) of parent Termamyl-like alpha-amylases, which variant has alpha-amylase activity and exhibits altered properties relative to the parent alpha-amylase. ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7485447 | Proteases and methods for producing them A secreted proteolytic polypeptide comprising at least three non-polar or uncharged polar amino acids within the last four amino acids of the C-terminus of the polypeptide, encoding polynucleotides, expression vectors comprising the polynucleotides, host cell compri... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7445918 | Pullulanase variants and methods for preparing such variants with predetermined properties The present invention relates to pullulanase variants, wherein the variants have improved properties, for example, altered pH optimum, improved thermostability, altered substrate specificity, increased specific activity or altered cleavage pattern. ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7425528 | Stabilization of granules The present invention relates to granules comprising a core matrix and one or more coatings, wherein the core matrix comprises: An active compound, a synthetic polymer, where the amount of polymer added is 0.1 to 10% by weight of the matrix and one or more antioxida... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7419947 | Process for preparing granules with filamentous coatings The present invention relates to a granule comprising a core and a coating, wherein the core comprises an active compound, and the coating comprises filaments prepared from atomizing a liquid coating composition having the property that liquid coating composition fo... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7374922 | Starch debranching enzymes The invention relates to a genetically engineered variant of a parent starch debranching enzyme, i.e. a pullulanase or an isamylase, the enzyme variant having an improved thermostability at a pH in the range of 4-6 compared to the parent enzyme and/or an increased a... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7371546 | Glucoamylase variants The invention relates to a variant of a parental fungal glucoamylase, which exhibits improved thermal stability and/or increased specific activity using saccharide substrates. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7319087 | Antimicrobial polypeptide from The present invention relates to an anti-microbial polypeptide and a DNA construct encoding said anti-microbial polypeptide and the use of said anti-microbial polypeptide. ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7294499 | Subtilases The present invention relates to methods for producing variants of a parent TY145 subtilase and of a parent BPN′ subtilase and to TY145 and BPN′ variants having altered properties as compared to the parent TY145/BPN′ subtilase. ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7288401 | Protease variants and compositions 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 paren... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7273736 | Method for preparing an enzyme containing granule The invention relates processes for producing enzyme containing granules having an enzyme containing core and a shell coating the core wherein the preparation of the core and application of the shell are independent and are physically separated by time and/or locati... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7267818 | Method for killing spores A method for killing or inactivating spores, by contacting the spores with a haloperoxidase, a source of hydrogen peroxide and a source of iodide ions. The spores may additionally be contacted with a haloperoxidase enhancing agent. ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7264954 | Lipoxygenase The present disclosure relates to an isolated lipoxygenase which is: a) a polypeptide encoded by the DNA sequence cloned into plasmid pUC19 present in Escherichia coli deposited as DSM 14139; b) a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence of the mature peptid... | 09/04/2007 |
