C12P 7/6436
Fatty acid esters
C12P7/6436 (Fatty acid esters) appears on 1,611 US grants and 2,203 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C12P- Granted patents
- 1,611
- Published applications
- 2,203
- Assignees
- 821
- Inventors
- 3,707
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 20 | 8 |
| 2002 | 28 | 20 |
| 2003 | 23 | 37 |
| 2004 | 17 | 37 |
| 2005 | 12 | 50 |
| 2006 | 24 | 56 |
| 2007 | 39 | 66 |
| 2008 | 21 | 120 |
| 2009 | 46 | 106 |
| 2010 | 66 | 130 |
| 2011 | 81 | 151 |
| 2012 | 85 | 142 |
| 2013 | 80 | 147 |
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| 2020 | 78 | 62 |
| 2021 | 60 | 82 |
| 2022 | 52 | 75 |
| 2023 | 41 | 69 |
| 2024 | 48 | 80 |
| 2025 | 44 | 59 |
| 2026 | 33 | 59 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Carboxylic acid esters of xylitol and process for enzymatically preparing same6 Oct 2026US 12,753,396 B2Evonik Operations GmbH
- Compositions comprising n-nonanoic acid esters of xylitan and/or sorbitan15 Sep 2026US 12,735,379 B2Evonik Operations GmbH
- Engineered phospholipase D mutants, methods of making engineered phospholipase D mutants, and uses thereof25 Aug 2026US 12,716,080 B2Cornell University
- Ester compositions28 Jul 2026US 12,691,046 B2Evonik Operations GmbH
- Process and system for producing pulp, energy, and bioderivatives from plant-based and recycled materials14 Jul 2026US 12,678,759 B2Circ, LLC
- Fatty acid esterification pretreatment process1 Oct 2026US 2026/0297637 A1Novozymes A/S
- Process and System for Producing Pulp, Energy, and Bioderivatives from Plant-Based and Recycled Materials10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264040 A1Circ, LLC
- Anaerobic co-production of essential amino acids, alcohols and lipids from molasses, hydrolysed starch and lignocellulose10 Sep 2026US 2026/0265796 A1SNL BioSolution Aps
- Process for producing high-grade fatty acide polyol esters, particularly fatty acid glycerol esters27 Aug 2026US 2026/0250601 A1IOI OIeo GmbH
- Lyso-ornithine lipid biosurfactant overproduction system27 Aug 2026US 2026/0250648 A1University of the Western Cape
Most cited
By later US patents
- Process for the heterotrophic production of microbial products with high concentrations of omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids354US 5,130,242 APhycotech, Inc. · 1992
- Arachidonic acid and methods for the production and use thereof206US 5,658,767 AMartek Corporation · 1997
- Solventless extraction process206US 6,750,048 B2Martek Biosciences Corporation · 2004
- Pharmaceutical composition and dietary supplement containing docosarexaenoic acid obtained from dinoflagellates200US 5,492,938 AMartek Biosciences Corporation · 1996
- Process for the selective production of polyunsaturated fatty acids from a culture of microalgae of the porphyridium cruentum190US 5,338,673 ACommissariat A L' Energie Atomique · 1994