Eicosapentaenoic acid-producing microorganisms, fatty acid compositions, and methods of making and uses thereof

US9668499B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• DSM IP ASSETS B.V. · NL

Inventors

• Kirk E. Apt · Ellicott City, US
• Paul Warren Behrens · Ellicott City, US
• Jon Milton Hansen · Chula Vista, US
• Joseph W. Pfeifer, III · Westminster, US
• Tracey Lynn Stahl · Pasadena, US
• Ross Zirkle · Mount Airy, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 12, 2015
• Grant date: Jun 6, 2017
• Expiry date: May 12, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02A40/818
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention is directed to isolated microorganisms as well as strains and mutants thereof, biomasses, microbial oils, compositions, and cultures; methods of producing the microbial oils, biomasses, and mutants; and methods of using the isolated microorganisms, biomasses, and microbial oils.