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Technologies Available for Licensing
As new inventions are disclosed from BESC researchers we will post information about the invention on this webpage. In addition, many of the BESC partner institutions have pre-existing (“background”) inventions on related topics which are also available for licensing.
BESC Inventions
BIOMASS FORMATION AND MODIFICATION
- A Broad Environmental Stress-Inducible Promoter and its Application in Crops.
University of Tennessee; Ref PD09034, December 2008 - A Novel Method of Producing Stably Transgenic Switchgrass.
University of Tennessee; Ref PD09057, February 2009 - pANIC, a Complete Plant Transformation Vector Set for Monocots
University of Tennessee, Ref PD9014, September 2008. - Enhancement Of Biomass And Productivity In Grasses.
Samuel R. Noble Foundation, July 2008. - Switchgrass ubi1 promoter is a strong promoter for expressing transgenes in a wide variety of plant species.
University of Tennessee and the University of Georgia Jointly; Ref PD09058, February 2009.
CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING
- Scanning Probe Microscopy with Spectroscopic Molecular Recognition
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (UT-Battelle, LLC), Ref ID2174, November 2008. - Multi-Chamber Pretreatment Reactor for High Throughput Screening of Biomass
National Renewable Energy Laboratory and University of California, Riverside jointly; NREL Ref. 09-01, October 2008. - Biomass Pretreatment and Co-hydrolysis in Modified 96-Well Plates
University of California at Riverside Ref. 2000-104. August 2008. - Direct Dissolution and NMR analysis of the plant cell walls in ionic liquid/DMSO bi-solvent.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Ref. 4564. July 2008 - The Use of Monoclonal Antibodies in Biomass Characterization.
University of Georgia; Ref 09-54, April 2009 - Mode-synthesizing atomic force microscopy (MSAFM) and mode-synthesizing sensing (MSS)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Ref ID 2253, May 2009. - Methods and Apparatus for Intracellular Fluid Delivery
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (UT-Battelle, LLC), Ref ID2358, January 2010
BIOMASS DECONSTRUCTION AND CONVERSION
- Universal Gene Transfer Technology for Gram Positive Bacteria
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (UT-Battelle, LLC) Ref. ID2139. July 2008 - Gene and Gene Clusters that Enable Degradation of Recalcitrant Biological Materials
University of Georgia, Ref. 1425, Adams, August 2008 - Recombinant Gram-Positive Microorganism Growing on Cellulose as the Sole Carbon Source in Defined Media
Virginia Tech; Ref 09-095, March 2009
Background Inventions belonging to BESC institutions:
Dartmouth College
- Reducing Acid Use In Pretreatment Of Celluosic Biomass Through Mineral Removal
- Lignin-Blocking Treatment Of Biomass And Uses Thereof
- Conversion Of Soybean Hulls To Ethanol And High-Protein Food Additives
University of Georgia
- A Co-fermentation Strategy to Remove the Key Inhibitors and More Efficiently Co-ferment Mixed Sugars
- Methods for Producing and Using Polymyxins (Colistins A and B)
- Hydrogenase Polypetide for Use in Hydrogen Production Systems and in Multi-enzyme Industrial Processes
- Highly-Efficient Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Grasses for Ethanol Production
- Modified Pyrolysis Systems for the High-yield Production of Bio-oil from Biomasses
- Method to Produce Recombinant Proteins in Large Yields Without Acetate Contamination
- Microbial Production of Pyruvate and other Economically Important Metabolites in Very Large Scale
- Renewable Biomass, Biofuel and Bioproducts Production from Industrial and Agricultural Wastewater
- A Novel Algal Production Technology for Biofuel, Bioenergy and Added Value Products
- Animal Waste derived Organic Plankton Booster as Low-cost Renewable Nutrient Source for Algaeculture to Produce Biofules
- Mixotrophic Algae and Their Consortia for the Production of Algae Biofuel Feedstock in Wastewater-fed Open Ponds
- Ethanol Production from Woody Biomass
- Production of Higher Quality Bio-oils by In-Line Esterification of Pyrolysis Vapor
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- A Targeted Mutagenesis Tool in Mesophilic Cellulolytic Clostridia Species
- Microorganisms Having Enhanced Resistance To Acetate (Related Compositions and Methods of Use)
- Microbial Fuel Cells for Recycle of Process Water from Cellulosic Ethanol Biorefineries
For information on any of these please contact Russ Miller (r69@ornl.gov), (865) 574-8746.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a national multi-program research and development facility managed by UT-Battelle, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy.
