CABBI technologies can open the door to new tools and products for a number of large industries. As such, our teams works with our respective Office of Technology Management offices to commercialize our technologies and partner with industry.
A sampling of the filings can be found below. For current licensing status, please contact Celine Young at chyoung@illinois.edu.
2023 Filings
U.S. Patent Application: “Enhanced Extraction of Natural Products from Biomass.” Inventors: Vijay Singh, Shivali Banerjee, and Erik Sacks, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
U.S. Non-Provisional Patent Application: “Methods and Compositions for Producing Plants having High Vegetative Fatty Acids.” Inventors: Ed Cahoon, Kiyoul Park, Truyen Quach, and Tom Clemente, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
U.S. Non-Provisional and Provisional Patent Applications: “Metabolically Engineered Issatchenkia orientalis Strains for Succinic Acid Production.” Inventors: Huimin Zhao and Vinh Tran, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
2022 Filings
Invention Disclosure: “Highly Efficient and Scarless Assembly of DNA Molecules Using One-Pot Exonuclease Treatment and Phosphorylation.” Inventors: Huimin Zhao and Behnam Enghiad, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
U.S. Provisional Patent: “Enhanced Extraction of Natural Products from Biomass.” Inventors: Vijay Singh, Shivali Banerjee, and Erik Sacks, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
U.S. Provisional Patent Application: “Compositions and Methods for Suppression of Flowering in Sugarcane and Energycane.” Inventors: Fredy Altpeter and Baskaran Kannan, University of Florida.
U.S. Non-Provisional Patent Application: “Plant SWEET and Yeast MSF Transporter Capable of Transporting Different Sugars Simultaneously.” Inventors: Yong-Su Jin, Nurzhan Kuanyshev, Anshu Deewan, and Christopher Rao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
U.S. Non-Provisional Patent Application: “A DNAzyme-based Genome Engineering Method.” Inventors: Yi Lu and Mingkuan Lyu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
2021 Filings
U.S. Non-Provisional and Provisional Patent Applications: “A CRISPR/Cas9-Based Tool for Genome Editing in Issatchenkia orientalis.” Inventors: Vinh Tran, Mingfeng Cao, Zia Fatma, and Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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: Vijay Singh and Shraddha Maitra, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Invention Disclosure: “Method for the Production of Sorghum with High Vegetative Triacylglycerols.” Inventors: Thomas E. Clemente, Kiyoul Park, Truyen Quach, and Edgar B. Cahoon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
2020 Filings
U.S. Provisional Patent Application: “Cells and Methods for Producing Methyl Ketones.” Inventors: Qiang Yan and Brian Pfleger, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Invention Disclosure: “Photoenzymatic Synthesis of γ-Chiral Carbonyl Compounds.” Inventors: Huimin Zhao, Xiaoqiang Huang, Yajie Wang, and Guangde Jiang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
2019 Filings
U.S. Provisional Patent Application: “A CRISPR/Cas9 System for High Efficiency Gene Deletion in Rhodosporidium toruloides.” Inventors: John Carl Schultz, Mingfeng Cao, and Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Invention Disclosure: “A Genetic Toolbox for Metabolic Engineering of Issatchenkia orientalis.” Inventors: Huimin Zhao, Mingfeng Cao, Zia Fatma, Vinh Tran, and Xiaofei Song, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
U.S. Provisional Patent Application: “Processing of Lipid-Producing Biomass for High Yields of Oils and Cellulosic Sugars for Biofuel Production.” Inventors: Deepak Kumar, Vijay Singh, and Yuyao Jia, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
2018 Filings
Invention Disclosure: “Cooperative Asymmetric Reactions Combining Photocatalysis and Enzymatic Catalysis.” Inventors: Huimin Zhao, John F. Hartwig, Yajie Wang, and Zachary C. Litman, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Invention Disclosure: “Use of CRISPER/Cas9 with Consensus Guide RNA to Reduce Alpha Prolamins for Digestibility and Lysine Improvements in Sorghum and Maize.” Inventors: David Holding and Thomas Clemente, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.