JBEI has an expanding patent portfolio of US and global patent applications, leading to an increasing number of issued patents. To date, the following patents have been issued:
| IP Number | Country | IP Title | Inventors | LBNL Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7985567 | US | Host Cells and Methods for Producing 3-Methyl-2-buten-1-ol, 3-Methyl-3-buten-1-ol, and 3-Methyl-butan-1-ol | Howard H. Chou and Jay Keasling | 2392-01 |
| 2 | 8420833 | US | Producing Biofuels Using Polyketide Synthases | Jeffrey L. Fortman, Leonard Katz and Jay Keasling | 2540-01 |
| 3 | 8569023 | US | Producing Dicarboxylic Acids Using Polyketide Synthases | Jeffrey L. Fortman, Leonard Katz and Jay Keasling | 2541-01 |
| 4 | 8552169 | US | Transcription factor-based biosensor | Jeffrey Dietrich and Jay Keasling | 2710-01 |
| 5 | 8790542 | US | Novel compositions and methods useful for ionic liquid treatment of biomass, Inv | Dean C. Dibble, Aurelia A.Cheng and Anthe George | 2729-01 |
| 6 | 8652804 | US | Transcription factor-based biosensors for detecting dicarboxylic acids | Jeffrey Dietrich and Jay Keasling | 2982-01 |
| 7 | 9040282 | US | Producing Dicarboxylic Acids Using Polyketide Synthases, | Jeffrey L. Fortman, Leonard Katz and Jay Keasling | 2541-08 |
| 8 | 8852902 | US | Producing a Trimethylpentanoic Acid Using Hybrid Polyketide Synthases | Jeffrey L. Fortman, Leonard Katz and Jay Keasling | 2825-01 |
| 9 | 9109175 | US | Isoprenoid Based Alternative Diesel Fuel | Jay Keasling, Taek Soon Lee and Pamela Patricia Peralta-Yahya | 2837-01 |
| 10 | 9157130 | US | Recovery of Sugars from Ionic Liquid Biomass Liquor by Solvent Extraction | Harvey W. Blanch, Bradley Holmes, Timothy Brennan and Blake A. Simmons | 2750-01 |
| 11 | 9200298 | US | Host Cells and Methods for Producing Isoprenyl Alkanoates | Taek Soon Lee, Jeffrey L. Fortman and Jay Keasling | 2391-01 |
| 12 | 9290768 | US | Engineered Microorganisms Having Resistance to Ionic Liquids | Michael Thelen and Thomas L. Ruegg | 3127-02 |
| 13 | 9322042 | US | Thermophilic Cellulases Compatible with Ionic Liquid Pretreatment for Simultaneous Pretreatment and Saccharification of Cellulosic Biomass | Harvey W. Blanch, Rajat Sapra, Bradley Holmes, Zhiwei Chen, Supratim Datta and Blake A. Simmons | 2666-01 |
| 14 | 9334514 | US | Hybrid Polyketide Synthases | Jeffrey Fortman, Leonard Katz, Jay Keasling, Sean Poust, Jingwei Zhang and Sergey Zotchev | 2820-01 |
| 15 | 9376691 | US | Fusion Proteins Useful for Producing Pinene | Pamela Patricia Peralta-Yahya and Jay Keasling | 2895-03 |
| 16 | 9361427 | US | Scar-Less Multi-Part DNA Assembly Design Automation | Nathan J. Hillson | 2928-01 |
| 17 | 9376728 | US | Useful halophilic, thermostable and ionic liquids tolerant cellulases | Tao Zhang, Supratim Datta, Edward M. Rubin and Blake A. Simmons | 3028-02 |
| 18 | 9382553 | US | Host Cells and Methods for Producing 1-Deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate (DXP) and/or a DXP Derived Compound | James Kirby, Jeffrey L Fortman, Minobu Nishimoto and Jay Keasling | 3006-01 |
| 19 | 9403915 | US | Compositions and methods useful for ionic liquid treatment of biomass | Dean C. Dibble, Aurelia Cheng and Anthe George | 2729-03 |
| 20 | 9428726 | US | Modified Host Cells with Efflux Pumps | Jay Keasling, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay and Mary J Dunlop | 2845-01 |
| 21 | 9556458 | US | Bacterial Production of Methyl Ketones | Harry R Beller and Ee-Been Goh | 3063-03 |
| 22 | 9624482 | US | Novel thermophilic cellobiohydrolase | Rajat Sapra, Joshua Park, Supratim Datta and Blake A. Simmons | 2745-01 |
| 23 | 9631210 | US | Methods For Increasing Production Of 3-Methyl-2-Butenol Using Fusion Proteins | Howard H Chou and Jay Keasling | 3112-03 |
| 24 | 9637766 | US | Host Cells and Methods for Producing 1-Deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate (DXP) and/or a DXP Derived Compound (Divisional) | James Kirby, Jeffrey L Fortman, Minobu Nishimoto and Jay Keasling | 3006-03 |
| 25 | 9708624 | US | Modulation of Expression of Acyl Transferases to Modify Hydroxycinnamic Acid Content | Laura E Bartley, Pamela C Ronald and Henrik Vibe Scheller | 2915-03 |
| 26 | 9725749 | US | Glycoside Hydrolases Having Multiple Hydrolase Activities | Swapnil R Chhabra, Dylan C Chivian, Zhiwei Chen, Gregory Friedland and Blake A. Simmons | 3057-03 |
| 27 | 9745587 | US | Novel Nucleic Acid Constructs Containing Orthogonal Site Selective Recombinases (OSSRs) | Joshua M Gilmore, John E Dueber and J. Christopher Anderson | 2593-01 |
| 28 | 9738901 | US | Regulation of Galactan Synthase Expression to Modify Galactan Content in Plants | Henrik Vibe Scheller and Joshua L Heazlewood | 3144-03 |
| 29 | 9765044 | US | Synthesis of Novel Ionic Liquids from Lignin-Derived Compounds | Blake A. Simmons, Seema Singh, Aaron M. Socha and Maxime Bergeron | 2013-042-04 |
| 30 | 9803182 | US | Ionic Liquid-Tolerant Cellullase Enzymes | Blake A. Simmons, Joshua Park, Kenneth L. Sale, Steven W Singer and John M Gladden | 3264-02 |
| 31 | 103403016 | China | Spatially Modified Gene Expression in Plants | Dominique Loque and Henrik Vibe Scheller | 2930-06 |
| 32 | 9816101 | US | Improving Drought and Submergence Tolerance in Plants | Pamela C Ronald, Hewei Du, Yufan Zhou and Nir Oksenberg | 2014-108-03 |
| 33 | 12842733.3 | France | Bacterial Production of Methyl Bacterial Production of Methyl Ketones | Harry R Beller and Ee-Been Goh | 3063-05 |
| 34 | 602012040706.9 | Germany | Bacterial Production of Methyl Ketones | Harry R Beller and Ee-Been Goh | 3063-06 |
| 35 | 12842733.3 | UK | Bacterial Production of Methyl Ketones | Harry R Beller and Ee-Been Goh | 3063-07 |
| 36 | 9856461 | US | Producing alpha-olefins using polyketide synthases | Jeffrey L Fortman, Leonard Katz, Eric J Steen and Jay Keasling | 2809-17 |
| 37 | 9862982 | US | Useful halophilic, thermostable and ionic liquids tolerant cellulases | Tao Zhang, Supratim Datta, Edward M. Rubin;Blake A. Simmons * | 3028-03 |
| 38 | 9902964 | US | Growth Arrested Cells Useful for Producing Compounds | Jay Keasling and Gregory Bokinsky | 2014-061-02 |
| 39 | 9932601 | US | Inhibition of Snl6 Expression for Biofuel Production | Becky Bart, Mawsheng Chern, Pamela C Ronald and Miguel Vega-Sanchez | 2763-03 |
| 40 | 9951345 | US | Host Cells and Methods for Producing Diacid Compounds | Jay Keasling, Eric J Steen, Jeffrey L Fortman and Jeffrey Dietrich | 2878-01 |
| 41 | 2771381 | EPO | Bacterial Production of Methyl Ketones | Harry R Beller and Ee-Been Goh | 3063-04 |
| 42 | 10112916 | US | HMF Production from Fructose in Ionic Liquid Media | Blake A. Simmons, Anthe George, Seema Singh, Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh, Robert Jansen and Philip Travisano | 2014-136-02 |
| 43 | 10131903 | US | Microfluidic Platform for Synthetic Biology Applications | Nathan J Hillson, Anup K Singh, Rajiv Bharadwaj, Aarthi Chandrasekaran and Chieh Chang | 2934-01 |
| 44 | 10155735 | US | Synthesis of Novel Ionic Liquids from Lignin-Derived Compounds | Blake A. Simmons, Seema Singh, Aaron M. Socha and Maxime Bergeron | 2013-042-07 |
| 45 | 10167488 | US | Heterologous Pathway to Produce Terpenes | Jay Keasling and Christopher Eiben | 2014-119-02 |
| 46 | 10227573 | US | Dominant negative mutations of Arabidopsis RWA | Henrik Scheller, Dominique Loque and Soe Htwe | 2013-051-02 |
| 47 | 10208076 | US | Renewable Aromatics From Lignocellulosic Lignin | Blake A. Simmons, Seema Singh and Patanjali Varanasi | 2013-105-02 |
| 48 | 10233431 | US | Producing 3-Hydroxycarboxylic Acid and Ketone Using Polyketide Synthases | Jay D. Keasling, Leonard Katz and Satoshi Yuzawa | 2014-007-02 |
| 49 | 10167488 | US | Heterologous Pathway to Produce Terpenes | Jay D. Keasling and Christopher Eiben | 2014-119-02 |
| 50 | 10273506 | US | Novel Host Cells and Methods for Producing Isopentenol from Mevalonate | Taek Soon Lee and Aram Kang | 2014-135-03 |
| 51 | 10280441 | US | Host Cells and Methods for Producing Cinnamoyl Anthranilate and Analogs Thereof | Dominique Loque and Aymerick Eudes | 2923-01 |
| 52 | 10240180 | US | Multiplexed Screening of Enzyme Activities Using Nanostructure-Initiator Mass Spectrometry | Trent R Northen, Seema Singh, Anup K Singh, Wolfgang E Reindl, Kai Deng and Xiaoliang Cheng | 2926-01 |
| 53 | 10233457 | US | Inhibition of a Xylosyltransferase to Improve Sacharification Efficiency | Henrik Scheller, Dawn M. Chiniquy and Pamela C Ronald | 3136-02 |
| 54 | 10233292 | US | Renewable Aromatics from Lignocellulosic Lignin | Blake A. Simmons, Seema Singh and Patanjali Varanasi | 3265-03 |
| 55 | 10227622 | US | A Host Cell Modified to Produce 2-Pyrrolidone | Jay D. Keasling and Jingwei Zhang | 3307-02 |
| 56 | 57.232 | Chile | Spatially Modified Gene Expression in Plants | Dominique Loque and Henrik Scheller | 2930-05 |
| 57 | 10316068 | US | Synthetic Polypeptide Having A Xylose Import Activity | Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Amanda Reider Apel, Mario Ouellet and Jay D. Keasling | 2014-020-02 |
| 58 | 10351881 | US | Host Cells and Methods for Producing Diacid Compounds | Jay D. Keasling and Robert Haushalter | 2014-158-02 |
| 59 | 10358685 | US | Sugar Extraction and Ionic Liquid Recycling Using Alkaline Solutions | Bradley Holmes, Anthe George, Ning Sun, Kim Tran, and Blake Simmons | 3117-03 |
| 60 | 10358651 | US | Modified Plants and Methods for Producing Modified Lignin by Modulating Expression of Acyltransferases | Dominique Loque Aymerick Eudes | 2013-139-02 |
| 61 | 10370686 | US | A Yeast Cell Modified to Overproduce Fatty Acid and Fatty Acid-Derived Compounds | Jay Keasling Weerawat Runguphan | 2013-113-03 |
| 62 | 10370418 | US | Engineered Microorganisms Having Resistance to Ionic Liquids | Thomas Ruegg Michael Thelen Douglas Higgins | 2013-120-02 |
| 63 | 10373703 | US | Scar-Less Multi-Part DNA Assembly Design Automation | Nathan Hillson | 2928-03 |
| 64 | 10378000 | US | Ionic Liquid-Tolerant Cellulase Enzymes | Blake Simmons Joshua Park Kenneth Sale Steven Singer John Gladden | 3264-03 |
| 65 | 10407691 | US | Engineering Pathogen Resistance in Plants | Pamela Ronald Benjamin Schwessinger Rory Pruitt Anna Joe Weiguo Zhang | 2016-030-03 |
| 66 | 10415052 | US | Tissue specific reduction of lignin | Dominique Loque Aymerick Eudes | 3266-03 |
| 67 | 10450578 | US | Modulation of Expression of Acyltransferases to Modify Hydroxycinnamic Acid Content | Laura Bartley Pamela Ronald Henrik Scheller | 2915-04 |
| 68 | 10494625 | US | Hybrid Polyketide Synthases | Jeffrey Fortman Jay Keasling Andrew Hagen Sean Poust Jingwei Zhang SergeyZotchev Leonard Katz | 2820-04 |
| 69 | 10513713 | US | Modified Host Cells having Tolerance to Alpha-Olefins | Florence Mingardon Angelique Chanal Aindrila Mukhopadhyay | 2013-181-03 |
| 70 | 10557152 | US | Yeast Host Cells and Methods for Producing Fatty Alcohols | Jay Keasling Leopold D'Espaux | 2017-097-02 |
| 71 | 10597669 | US | Method of Reducing Acetylation in Plants to Improve Biofuel Production | Henrik Scheller | 2658-04 |
| 72 | 10597685 | US | Host Cells and Methods for Oxidizing Aromatic Amino Acids | Jay Keasling Yasuharu Satoh Taek Soon Lee | 2939-01 |
| 73 | 10640537 | US | Host Cells and Methods Using a Repressor Polypeptide and an Inducible Promoter for Gene Expression | Thomas Ruegg | 2015-007-02 |
| 74 | 10672601 | US | Detecting Compounds in Microfluidic Droplets Using Mass Spectrometry | Trent Northen Joshua Heinemann | 2016-049-03 |
| 75 | 10696954 | US | A Plant-Fungal Hybrid Peroxidase Engineered for Enhanced Activity and Stability | Blake Simmons Kenneth Sale Amanda Kohler | 2016-070-02 |
| 76 | 10703770 | US | Novel Compositions and Methods for the Dissolution and Depolymerization of Lignin | Blake Simmons Seema Singh Jian Sun Tanmoy Dutta Parthasarathi Ramakrishnan | 2015-080-02 |
| 77 | 10767027 | US | Magnetically-Recoverable Catalysts for Depolymerization | Blake Simmons Seema Singh Jian Sun | 2018-055-02 |
| 78 | 10774338 | US | Generation of Heritable Chimeric Plant Traits | Dominique Loque Yan Liang | 2013-171-02 |
| 79 | 10814724 | US | Novel Host Cells and Methods for Producing Isopentenol from Mevalonate | Taek Soon Lee Aram Kang | 2014-135-04 |
| 80 | 10822634 | US | Determination of Ligninase Activities by Nano-structure Initiator Mass Spectrometry | Trent Northen Kai Deng | 2016-109-03 |
| 81 | 10837038 | US | Adjusting the pH of a Pretreatment Solution Using Carbon Dioxide Useful for Integrating Saccharification and Fermentation | Blake Simmons Seema Singh Jian Shi Jian Sun | 2014-139-03 |
| 82 | 3475450 | US | Nucleic Acid Synthesis and Sequencing Using Tethered Nucleoside Triphosphates | Daniel Arlow Sebastian Palluk | 2018-103-07 |
| 83 | 10876139 | US | Host cells and Methods for Producing Diacid Compounds | Jay Keasling Robert Haushalter | 2014-158-03 |
| 84 | 10900049 | US | Tissue Specific Reduction of Lignin | Dominique Loque Aymerick Eudes | 3266-06 |
| 85 | 10907184 | US | Ammonium Based Ionic Liquids Useful for Lignocellulosic Processing | Blake Simmons Seema Singh Parthasarathi Ramakrishnan Tanmoy Dutta | 2014-167-03 |
| 86 | 10913935 | US | A Modified Bacteria Useful for Producing an Organic Molecule | Harry Beller | 3228-02 |
| 87 | 10920231 | US | Systems and Methods for Enhancing Gene Expression | Dominique Loque | 3293-03 |
| 88 | 10934321 | US | Renewable Aromatics from Lignocellulosic l-Lignin | Blake Simmons Seema Singh Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh Jian Shi Ning Sun Anthe George Manali Sawant | 2013-105-03 |
| 89 | 10934568 | US | Conversion of Sugars to Ionic Liquids | Blake Simmons Seema Singh John Gladden Jian Sun Tanmoy Dutta | 2015-059-03 |
| 90 | 10934551 | US | Gene Targets for Improved Enzyme Production in Fungi | John Gladden Scott Baker Jon Magnuson Jed Lynn Morgann Reilly Joonhoon Kim | 2015-059-03 |
| 91 | 10941388 | US | A Novel Cellulase Complex and Glycosidase Hydrolases Thereof, and Methods of Using Thereof | Steven Singer John Gladden Jennifer Hiras Evelyn Denzel Sebastian Kolinko | 2015-010-03 |
| 92 | 11001838 | US | Novel Platform for Screening Phosphomevalonate Decarboxylase | Taek Soon Lee Aram Kang | 2016-110-02 |
| 93 | 11014951 | US | Novel Compositions and Methods for Depolymerizing Lignin Using a Chelator-Mediated Fenton Reaction | Michael Kent | 2015-029-02 |
| 94 | 11021525 | US | A Synthetic Transcription Factor and Uses Thereof | Howard Chou Jay Keasling Sergey Zotchev | 3211-03 |
| 95 | 11028249 | US | Methods of Synthesizing Ionic Liquids from Primary Alcohol-Containing Lignin Compounds | Blake Simmons Seema Singh Tanmoy Dutta | 2014-166-02 |
| 96 | 11046981 | US | A Host Cell Modified to Produce Lactams | Jay Keasling Jingwei Zhang | 2016-119-03 |
| 97 | 11078499 | US | Host Cells and Methods for Producing Toluene Biochemically | Harry Beller Kamrun Zargar Andria Rodrigues | 2017-126-02 |
| 98 | 11085048 | US | Lignification Reduction in Plants | Dominique Loque Aymerick Eudes | 2929-09 |
| 99 | 11118204 | US | Switchable Ionic Liquids for Biomass Pretreatment and Enzymatic Hydrolysis | Blake Simmons Kenneth Sale Michael Liszka | 2014-064-03 |
| 100 | 11118197 | US | High Gravity, Fed-Batch Ionic Liquid Based Process for Deconstructing Biomass | Blake Simmons Seema Singh Feng Xu | 2015-143-03 |
| 101 | 11160277 | US | Use of Cholinium Lysinate as an Herbicide | Aindrilla Mukhopadhyay Robin Herbert Jennifer Mortimer Thomas Eng | 2018-118-02 |
| 102 | 11185862 | US | Digital Microfluidic Systems with Electrode Bus and Methods for Droplet Manipulation | Anup Singh Philip Gach | 2017-053-02 |
| 103 | 11193133 | US | Modulation of Expression of Acyl Transferases to Modify Hydroxycinnamic Acid Content | Laura Bartley Pamela Ronald Henrik Scheller | 2915-05 |
| 104 | 11208666 | US | Mutant Xylan Biosynthetic Enzymes Capable of Dominant Suppression of Xylan Biosynthesis | Henrik Scheller Dominique Loque Andrew Brandon | 2017-008-02 |
| 105 | 11254637 | US | Conversions of Lignin to Ionic Liquids | Blake Simmons Seema Singh Jian Sun Tanmoy Dutta | 2015-055-03 |
| 106 | 11254961 | US | Nucleic Acid Synthesis and Sequencing Using Tethered Nucleoside Triphosphates | Daniel Arlow Sebastian Palluk | 2018-103-03 |
| 107 | 11299519 | US | Host Cells and Methods Using a Repressor Polypeptide and an Inducible Promoter for Gene Expression | Thomas Ruegg | 2015-007-03 |