CABBI Inventions and Patents: 25 Filings & Counting!

Invention Disclosure: “Metabolically Engineered Issatchenkia orientalis Strains for Succinic Acid Production.” Inventors: CABBI’s Huimin Zhao and Vinh Tran, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Invention Report Date: Nov. 22, 2021.

Invention Disclosure: “Method for the Production of Sorghum with High Vegetative Triacylglycerols.” Inventors: CABBI’s Thomas E. Clemente, Kiyoul Park, Truyen Quach, and Edgar B. Cahoon, University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Invention Report Date: Oct. 26, 2021

Invention Disclosure: “Chemical-Free Production of HMF, Furfurals, and Acetic Acid and a Consolidated Bioprocess Design to Recover High-Value Platform Chemicals along with Bioethanol from Lignocellulosic Biomass.” Inventors: CABBI’s Vijay Singh and Shraddha Maitra, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Invention Report Date: Oct. 8, 2021

U.S. Provisional Patent Application 63/194571: “FREE FATTY ACID SEPARATION AND RECOVERY USING RESIN.” Inventors: CABBI’s Vijay Singh and Ramkrishna Singh, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Application Date: May 28, 2021

Invention Disclosure: “Free Fatty Acid Separation and Recovery Using Resin.” Inventors: CABBI’s Vijay Singh and Ramkrishna Singh, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Invention Report Date: Nov. 17, 2020

U.S. Provisional Patent Application 63/027872: “CELLS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING METHYL KETONES.” Inventors: Brian Pfleger (CABBI), Qiang Yan (CABBI), Nestor Hernandez-Lozada, and Trevor Simmons, University of Wisconsin at Madison. Application Date: May 20, 2020

Invention Disclosure: “Photoenzymatic Synthesis of γ-Chiral Carbonyl Compounds.” Inventors: CABBI’s Huimin Zhao, Xiaoqiang Huang, Yajie Wang, and Guangde Jiang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Invention Report Date: May 13, 2020

U.S. Provisional Patent Application 63/050534: “METHODS OF INTEGRATING AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING AND SATELLITE DATA FOR LARGE-SCALE CROP AND SOIL MONITORING.” Inventors: Kaiyu Guan (CABBI), Chongya Jiang (CABBI), Bin Peng, and Sheng Wang (CABBI), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Application Date: Feb. 23, 2020

Invention Disclosure: “High Solids Loading Processing of Cellulosic Biomass for High Yields of Cellulosic Sugars Production.” Inventors: CABBI’s Vijay Singh and Ming-Hsun Cheng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Invention Report Date: Dec. 20, 2019

U.S. Provisional Patent Application 62/950863: “A DNAZYME-BASED GENOME ENGINEERING METHOD.” Inventors: Yi Lu (CABBI) and Mingkuan Lyu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Application Date: Dec. 19, 2019

U.S. Provisional Patent Application 62/945438: “PROCESSING OF LIPID-PRODUCING BIOMASS FOR HIGH YIELDS OF OILS AND CELLULOSIC SUGARS FOR BIOFUEL PRODUCTION.” Inventors: CABBI’s Deepak Kumar, Yuyao Jia, and Vijay Singh, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Application Date: Dec. 9, 2019

Invention Disclosure: “A Genetic Toolbox for Metabolic Engineering of Issatchenkia orientalis.” Inventors: Huimin Zhao (CABBI), Vinh Tran (CABBI), Mingfeng Cao (CABBI), Zia Fatma (CABBI), and Xiaofei Song, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Invention Report Date: Dec. 4, 2019

Invention Disclosure: “Processing of Lipid-Producing Biomass for High Yields of Oils and Cellulosic Sugars for Biofuel Production.” Inventors: CABBI’s Deepak Kumar and Vijay Singh, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Invention Report Date: Sept. 24, 2019

Invention Disclosure: “Plant SWEET and Yeast MSF Transporter Capable of Transporting Different Sugars (Glucose, Xylose, Galactose, Fructose, Sucrose, Xylodextrin, Cellobiose, Arabinose, Lactose) Simultaneously.” Inventors: CABBI’s Yong-Su Jin, Nurzhan Kuanyshev, Anshu Deewan, and Christopher Rao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Invention Report Date: Sept. 6, 2019

Invention Disclosure: “A DNAzyme-based Genome Engineering Method.” Inventors: Yi Lu (CABBI) and Mingkuan Lyu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Invention Report Date: July 3, 2019.

Invention Disclosure: “Methods for High-Throughput Evaluation of Ligase Fidelity and Design Scheme for Highly Efficient, Scar-less Golden Gate Assembly and Point Mutation” (read more about this newly invented technique). Inventors: Mohammad HamediRad, Scott Weisberg, Ran Chao, Jiazhang Lian, and Huimin Zhao (CABBI), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Invention Report Date: April 18, 2019

U.S. Provisional Patent Application 62/809112: “A CRISPR/CAS9-BASED TOOL FOR GENOME EDITING IN ISSATCHENKIA ORIENTALIS” (read more about this newly invented technique). Inventors: CABBI’s Vinh Tran, Mingfeng Cao, Zia Fatma, and Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Application Date: Feb. 22, 2019

U.S. Provisional Patent Application 62/808898: “A CRISPR/CAS9 SYSTEM FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY GENE DELETION IN RHODOSPORIDIUM TORULOIDES” (read more about this newly invented technique). Inventors: John Carl Schultz, Mingfeng Cao (CABBI) and Huimin Zhao (CABBI), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Application Date: Feb. 22, 2019

Invention Disclosure: “A CRISPR/Cas9-Based Tool for Genome Editing in Issatchenkia orientalis” (read more about this newly invented technique). Inventors: CABBI’s Vinh Tran, Mingfeng Cao, Zia Fatma, and Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Invention Report Date: Jan. 25, 2019

Invention Disclosure: “A High-Efficiency CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing System in Rhodosporidium toruloides” (read more about this newly invented technique). Inventors: John Carl Schultz, Mingfeng Cao (CABBI) and Huimin Zhao (CABBI), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Invention Report Date: Jan. 16, 2019

Invention Disclosure: “Use of CRISPR/Cas9 with Consensus Guide RNA to Reduce Alpha Prolamins for Digestibility and Lysine Improvements in Sorghum and Maize” (read more about this newly invented technique). Inventors: David Holding and Thomas Clemente (CABBI), University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Invention Report Date: June 20, 2018

Invention Disclosure: “Cooperative Asymmetric Reactions Combining Photocatalysis and Enzymatic Catalysis” (read more about this newly invented technique). Inventors: Huimin Zhao (CABBI), Yajie Wang (CABBI), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, John F. Hartwig, and Zachary C. Litman, University of California at Berkeley. Invention Report Date: June 15, 2018