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20100279354 | ADAPTING MICROORGANISMS FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS - Disclosed herein are methods and compositions to convert a carbonaceous material to produce a fatty acid, biofuel, biodiesel, or other useful end-product. Organisms are evolutionarily modified to utilize carbon and/or nitrogen sources available in a carbonaceous material. Culture of the evolutionarily modified organism on the carbonaceous material in turn produces a fatty acid, biofuel, biodiesel, or other useful end-product by a process of conversion performed by evolutionarily modified organisms. | 11-04-2010 |
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 |
20110306100 | METHOD OF PRODUCING FATTY ACIDS FOR BIOFUEL, BIODIESEL, AND OTHER VALUABLE CHEMICALSPCT/ - The present invention relates to a method of producing fatty acids, by (i) inoculating a mixture of at least one of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin with at least one microorganism strain that produces one or more cellulases, hemicellulases and laccase, that hydrolyze at least one of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, under conditions to produce at least one of glucose, cellobiose, xylose, mannose, galactose, rhamnose, arabinose or other hemicellulose sugars; (ii) inhibiting growth of the at least one microorganism strain; (iii) inoculating the mixture of step (ii) with at least one algae strain that metabolizes the at least one of glucose, cellobiose, xylose, mannose, galactose, rhamnose, arabinose or other hemicellulose sugars, under conditions so that the at least one algae strain produces one or more fatty acids; and optionally (iv) recovering the one or more fatty acids from the at least one algae strain. | 12-15-2011 |
20110306101 | METHOD OF PRODUCING FATTY ACIDS FOR BIOFUEL, BIODIESEL, AND OTHER VALUABLE CHEMICALS - A method of producing fatty acids, by: (i) inoculating in a first bio-reactor a mixture of at least one of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin with a microorganism strain that produces one or more cellulases, hemicellulases, and/or laccases that hydrolyze at least one of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, and culturing the mixture to produce at least one fermentation product, for example one or more alcohols, in the mixture; (ii) optionally removing a portion of the at least one fermentation product from the mixture; (iii) transferring the remaining portion of the mixture into a second bio-reactor; and (iv) inoculating the portion of the mixture in the second bio-reactor with an algae strain that is capable of metabolizing the at least one fermentation product and any of the remaining soluble sugars, and culturing the mixture under conditions so that the at least one algae strain produces one or more fatty acids. | 12-15-2011 |
20120263690 | BIOCONTROL MICROORGANISMS - Methods, devices, and compositions described herein are directed to artificially evolving an organism for use as a biocontrol agent. Methods, devices, and compositions described herein are useful for evolving a microorganism to acquire traits not naturally associated with the microorganism. The artificial evolution process can utilize culture methods and devices designed to accommodate particular culture methods described herein. The organism can be artificially evolved for a characteristic such as ultraviolet light tolerance, chemical tolerance, thermotolerance, enhanced growth rate on a target carbon source, host specific growth, modified sporulation characteristics or modified spores. | 10-18-2012 |
20130196390 | METHOD OF PRODUCING BIOFUEL, BIODIESEL, AND OTHER VALUABLE CHEMICALS - a method for producing a hydrocarbon based product (e.g., biofuel or biodiesel), a microorganism (e.g., algae) that can be cultivated and harvested for producing a hydrocarbon based product, a method for producing a hydrocarbon based product from a by-product of biodiesel production, and a microorganism that can be cultivated from a by-product of biodiesel production and harvested for producing hydrocarbon based product. | 08-01-2013 |
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20090276181 | Method of Measuring an Anisotropic Surface Diffusion Tensor or Surface Energy Anisotropies - The invention relates to a method for the determination of the diffusion tensor anisotropy or the surface energy anisotropy that does not require the formation of particular structures, and enables this type of determination to be performed in the case of moderate-amplitude perturbations. | 11-05-2009 |
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20100047973 | METHOD FOR FORMING MICROWIRES AND/OR NANOWIRES - A method for forming a wire in a layer based on a monocrystalline or amorphous material. The method forms two trenches in the layer, crossing through one face of the layer, separated from each other by one portion of the layer, by an etching of the layer on which is arranged an etching mask, and anneals, under hydrogenated atmosphere, the layer, the etching mask being maintained on the layer during the annealing. The depths and widths of the sections of the two trenches, and the width of a section of the portion of the layer, are such that the annealing eliminates a part of the portion of the layer, the two trenches then forming a single trench in which a remaining part of the portion of the layer forms the wire. | 02-25-2010 |
20100049467 | Device for Measuring Alignment of Adjoining Structures - The invention relates to the field of micro- and nanotechnologies. In these techniques, it is sometimes necessary to glue several structures face to face and it is important to be able to check the alignment of the structures. A new method for measuring alignment, which comprises the following operations, is proposed for this purpose: activation of a heating element placed on the surface of the first structure, generation of electronic signals representative of a distribution of temperatures, on the basis of an array of temperature sensitive elements placed on the surface of the second structure, determination of a relative position of the heating element with respect to the array of sensitive elements, therefore of the first structure with respect to the second, on the basis of the distribution of temperatures, in a calculation circuit receiving the electronic signals engendered in the array of sensitive elements. | 02-25-2010 |
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