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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8211687 | Thixotropic gel for vadose zone remediation A thixotropic gel suitable for use in subsurface bioremediation is provided along with a process of using the gel. The thixotropic gel provides a non-migrating injectable substrate that can provide below ground barrier properties. In addition, the gel components pro... | 07/03/2012 |
| 6569909 | Inhibition of biological degradation in fischer-tropsch products The present invention relates to methods of inhibiting growth and reproduction of microorganisms in rapidly biodegradable hydrocarbonaceous products, containing minor amounts of aqueous liquids. The present invention also relates to rapidly biodegradable ... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6410265 | Gene encoding a putive efflux protein for solvents/antibiotics in Pseudomonas mendocina This invention relates to the isolation of a novel putative efflux gene from Pseudomonas mendocina. The putative efflux gene is useful for probing an organism's efflux system to gain an understanding of the mechanisms of solvent tolerance. The invention f... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6379937 | Process for the preparation of a mixture of 19 hydroxyelcosatetraenoic acid and 20 hydroxyeicosatetracnoic acid (10 hete and 20 hete) The present invention relates to a novel process for the preparation of mixture of 19 hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid and 20 hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (19 HETE and 20 HETE) by biotransformation of Arachidonic acid or Poly Unsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFA) wi... | 04/30/2002 |
| 5900366 | Production of sophorolipid acetate acids from oils or esters A process for the fed batch production of a sophorolipid composition is described, in which culturing takes place of at least one Candida bombicola strain in a culture medium incorporating a sugar and a nitrogen source and said cultured strain is exposed ... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5807724 | Degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons with organisms encapsulated in wax Organisms that degrade hydrocarbon-based substances are encapsulated in wax to form organism-containing wax microshells that are used for removing oil-based substances such as oil spills on land and water. The organism is preferably of the genus Candida t... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5756317 | Production of heteroplysaccharide biopolymers with xanthomonas in oil-in-water emulsion Heteropolysaccharide biopolymers well adopted as thickening agents are improvedly produced by microbially fermenting a carbohydrate nutrient medium, said nutrient medium comprising an oil-in-water emulsion of a discontinuous oily phase dispersed within a ... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5707825 | Interface bioreactor system This invention provides an interface bioreactor system comprising (a) a reaction tank having (1) a reaction solvent placed therein, (2) a plurality of plate-like hydrophilic immobilizing carriers each having a thickness of 1 to 500 mm and packed therein s... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5370990 | Diagnostic assay for fructosamines A method for the determination of glycated protein in a sample characterised in that it comprises treating the sample with a protease and treating the protease-treated sample with a ketoamine oxidase, a product of this reaction being measured is disclosed... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5364789 | Microbial cleaner A microbial cleaner comprising at least one hydrocarbon-ingesting microbe strain and a biocatalyst transforms hydrocarbons into nontoxic substances. The biocatalyst includes a nonionic surfactant, a chlorine-absorbing salt, at least one microbe nutrient, ... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5290688 | Method for intensive, in vitro culture of Babesia divergens strains Method for the culture of Babesia divergens, characterized in that the Babesia strain is maintained under culture in a culture medium free from serous protein but containing lipoproteins and red blood corpuscles, and a method for preparing exoantigens and... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5262306 | Methods for identifying cercosporin-degrading microorganisms Methods for the isolation and purification of the phytotoxin cercosporin are disclosed as well as methods for identifying microorganisms capable of degrading cercosporin. Cercosporin can be purified from members of the fungal genus Cercospora and incorpor... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5192672 | Method for oxidizing hydrocarbons with a hydroxylase from a methane monooxygenase A purified hydroxylase component of the soluble methane monooxygenase enzyme present in the bacterium Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b is found capable of oxidizing hydrocarbons under aerobic conditions in the presence of suitable reducing agents. The hydr... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5190870 | Method for oxidizing hydrocarbons with a hydroxylase from a methane monooxygenase A purified hydroxylase component of the soluble methane monooxygenase enzyme present in the bacterium Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b is found capable of oxidizing hydrocarbons under aerobic conditions in the presence of suitable reducing agents. The hydr... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5128250 | Process for production of highly unsaturated fatty acid having odd number of carbon atoms A process for the production of a highly unsaturated fatty acid having an odd number of carbon atoms by culturing a microorganism belong to the genus Mortierella and capable of producing the fatty acid; and a process for the production a highly unsaturate... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5128262 | Microbial decontamination of soils contaminated with hydrocarbons, in particular mineral oils by microbial oxidation The microbial decontamination of soils contaminated with hydrocarbons, in particular with mineral oils, by microbial oxidation is improved by a process in which in addition to supplying the oxygen necessary for degradation, by aeration, soluble nutrients,... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5059532 | Microorganism belonging to genus Rhodococcus, and a process for producing alkene derivative and unsaturated fatty acid Disclosed herein is a process for producing an unsaturated fatty acid or derivative thereof which comprises culturing an unsaturated fatty acid-producing microorganism belonging to the genus Rhodococcus in a medium containing a saturated fatty acid or a d... | 10/22/1991 |
| 4981800 | Method for culturing microorganism A method for culturing microorganisms belonging to the genus Pseudomonas or the genus Escherichia and having tolerance to an organic solvent such as any one of hydrocarbons, alcohols, ethers, ketones and their derivatives or their mixture in a medium cont... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4910143 | Bacterial method and compositions for degrading hydrocarbons A mixture of Pseudomonas putida one having plasmids encoding the camphor (CAM) and toluene (TOL) degradation and the other having a plasmid encoding for naphthalene (NAH) degradation is described. The mixture is more effective than either Pseudomonas puti... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4814272 | Process for the biotechnical production of rhamnolipids including rhamnolipids with only one ଲ-hydroxydecanoic acid residue in the molecule Rhamnolipids with high surface activity are produced micro iologically in high yield per g of dry cell substance using Pseudomonas spec. DSM 2874 in the form of growing, resting and immobilized cell mass in an aqueous medium containing at least one assimi... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4806482 | Microbial degradation of hydrocarbons The subject invention concerns a novel plasmid and its use in a microbial host to degrade a variety of organic compounds. Some of these compounds, such as ethylene dichloride, are undesirable waste products found in various dump sites. The invention also ... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4798723 | Agricultural products from Pseudomonas cepacia strains and methods of preparation Agricultural methods of biological control and organisms useful in such methods are disclosed, such as a plant colonizing organisms and methods of biologically controlling plant disease caused by fungi. A novel type of Pseudomonas cepacia type Wisconsin h... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4720456 | Trehalose lipid tetraesters Anionic, surface-active trehalose lipids, in which different organic acids are bound to a trehalose molecule by an ester linkage, are prepared by aerobically cultivating trehalose-producing microorganisms, capable of assimilating hydrocarbons, under growt... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4657863 | Stabilization of a mutant microorganism population This invention provides a process for stabilizing a population of a mutant microorganism in a bioconversion system whereby growth of revertant cells is suppressed. The process involves limiting a nutrient which is essential for cell growth so that the cel... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4618582 | Process for producing Xanthomonas biopolymers In the aerobic culture of microorganisms of the Xanthomonas genus in fermentation media, the use of water-in-oil emulsions in the media minimizes viscosity problems and enhances yields of Xanthomonas biopolymers. Preferably, the emulsion is formed with a ... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4617274 | Biochemical conversions by yeast fermentation at high cell densities Novel yeasts are disclosed including Pichia pastoris NRRL Y-11430, yeasts having the characteristics of Pichia pastoris NRRL Y-11430, mutants of Pichia pastoris NRRL Y-11430, and strains derived therefrom. Also disclosed are methods of culturing the strai... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4588584 | Medium for the isolation of Pseudomonas cepacia biotype from soil and the isolated biotype A new biotype, SDL-POP-S-1, of the soilborne beneficial bacterium Pseudomonas cepacia NRRL B-14149 has been discovered. The biotype is very effective in controlling Pythium diseases of cucumbers and peas. A new medium that is exclusively selective for the... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4535059 | Muconic acid productivity by a stabilized mutant microorganism population This invention provides an improved fermentation process for bioconversion of toluene to muconic acid. The process involves operating the bioconversion system under phosphate-limiting conditions so as to achieve an increase in specific muconic acid produc... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4480034 | Continuous fermentation process and bioconversion-product recovery This invention provides a continuous bioconversion process in which a cross-flow membrane filtration zone is employed to recover a whole cell-containing retentate stream and a cell-free bioconversion product-containing permeate stream. The retentate strea... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4473641 | Method for producing protein Protein is produced by bacterial degradation of rubber in a nutrient-containing, preferably sterile environment. The resultant protein is particularly useful as an animal feed.... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4424274 | Process for producing citric acid from hydrocarbons by fermentation The present invention relates to a microbiological process for the production of citric acid by assimilation of -olefins, normal paraffins and their mixture. This process is carried out by culturing the microorganisms selected from the group of Can... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4414329 | Biochemical conversions by yeast fermentation at high cell densities A method of high cellular density yeast fermentation at high mineral salts feed to and maintained in the ferment. Single cell protein (SCP) is produced in an aerobic fermentation process at high yields under high cell density conditions employing media of high... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4411998 | Suppressing method of iso-citric acid formation in producing citric acid from hydrocarbons by fermentation The present invention relates to a suppressing method of iso-citric acid formation in producing citric acid from hydrocarbons by fermentation. This process is carried out by culturing the microorganisms selected from the group belonging to Candida tropicalis, ... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4391908 | Method for producing citric acids Citric acids are produced by culturing a citric acids-accumulating and hydrocarbon-assimilating strain of a yeast of the genus Candida in an aqueous medium containing, as main carbon source, at least one normal paraffin with from 9 to 20 carbon atoms, inc... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4389484 | Method for producing citric acid Citric acids are produced by culturing a citric acids-accumulating and hydrocarbon-assimilating strain of a yeast of the Genus Candida in an aqueous medium containing, as main carbon source, at least one normal paraffin with from 9 to 20 carbon atoms, inc... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4385121 | Medium and process for disposing of hydrocarbon wastes An improved landfarming medium and process is disclosed in which hydrocarbon wastes are disposed of by dispersing them in a medium composed of a mixture of soil containing hydrocarbon-oxidizing microorganisms and a spent, solid, particulate, porous hydroc... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4368267 | Epoxidation of lower -olefins A process is disclosed for the epoxidation of lower -olefins dienes or vinyl aromatic compounds by contacting said compounds, under aerobic conditions in the presence of microorganisms, genetically engineered organisms thereof or enzyme preparation... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4355109 | Microbiological production of novel biosurfactants Newly isolated microbes of the genera Arthrobacter-Corynebacterium-Nocardia as represented by Corynebacteria Salvinicum strain SFC, produce substantial quantities of materials having outstanding surfactant properties, when grown on carbon supplying substr... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4326035 | Process for the culture of aerobic microorganisms Process for the culture of aerobic microorganisms in a culture medium provided with at least one source of oxygen, at least one source of carbon and at least one source of hydrogen, comprises providing oxygen originating from the decomposition of hydrogen... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4318784 | Enzymatic processes There are provided processes for carrying out enzymatic reactions, especially processes for the oxidative or reductive transformation of organic compounds catalyzed by enzymes, in which the enzymes require a continuing supply of reducing equivalents to re... | 03/09/1982 |
