Wet milling process

US10836837B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Novozymes A/S · DK

Inventors

• Yi Cao · Beijing, CN
• James Lavigne · Schreiber, CA
• Bernardo Vidal, Jr. · Wake Forest, US
• Thomas Patrick Gibbons · Wake Forest, US
• Chee-Leong Soong · Raleigh, US
• Brian R. Scott · Richmond, CA
• Randall Deinhammer · Wake Forest, US
• Zhen Long · Beijing, CN
• Michael John Akerman · Wake Forest, US
• Xinyu Shen · Wake Forest, US
• Yu Zhang · Beijing, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 25, 2016
• Grant date: Nov 17, 2020
• Expiry date: Nov 25, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E50/10
• WIPO field: Macromolecular chemistry, polymers
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process for treating crop kernels is comprised of the steps of a) soaking kernels in water to produce soaked kernels; b) grinding the soaked kernels; c) treating the soaked kernels in the presence of an effective amount of GH62 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity or a GH43 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity, wherein step c) is performed before, during or after step b).