C12P 7/14
Multiple stages of fermentation
Official title: Multiple stages of fermentation; Multiple types of microorganisms or re-use of microorganisms
C12P7/14 (Multiple stages of fermentation) appears on 536 US grants and 784 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C12P- Granted patents
- 536
- Published applications
- 784
- Assignees
- 228
- Inventors
- 1,046
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Methods and systems for producing cellulosic ethanol by biomass saccharification and fermentation8 Sep 2026US 12,729,388 B2Zhejiang Huakang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
- Method and system for picture segmentation using columns25 Aug 2026US 12,720,070 B2Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
- Yeast stage tank incorporated fermentation system and method16 Jun 2026US 12,655,453 B2Lee Tech LLC
- Processes for producing fermentation products26 May 2026US 12,637,699 B2Novozymes A/S
- Carbohydrate binding module variants and hybrid polypeptides comprising same14 Apr 2026US 12,600,996 B2Novozymes A/S
- Yeast stage tank incorporated fermentation system and method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0297632 A1Lee Tech LLC
- Endogenous lipase for metal reduction in distillers corn oil20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242831 A1
- Method for treating lignocellulosic biomass6 Aug 2026US 2026/0226395 A1Ifp Energies Nouvelles
- Baking method with thermostable amg variant and alpha-amylase18 Jun 2026US 2026/0167948 A1Novozymes A/S
- Processes of producing fermentation products30 Apr 2026US 2026/0117266 A1Novozymes North America, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Process for producing ethanol284US 6,509,180 B1ZeaChem, Inc. · 2003
- Process for producing ethanol226US 6,927,048 B2Zea Chem, Inc. · 2005
- Process for producing ethanol from corn dry milling194US 7,507,562 B2ZeaChem, Inc. · 2009
- Processing biomass176US 7,932,065 B2Xyleco, Inc. · 2011
- Process for producing ethanol165US 7,351,559 B2ZeaChem, Inc. · 2008