Patents Represented by Attorney Melden & Carroll, LLP
  • Patent number: 8028928
    Abstract: The present inventions relate to top dressing vehicles for coating, mixing, and dispensing compositions of top dressing materials comprising agriculturally active ingredients (A.I.s). More particularly, these inventions relate to apparatus for spraying liquid formulations comprising active ingredients A.I.s onto top dressing materials prior to and during delivering top dressing applications. Further, these inventions relate to applying liquids comprising A.I.s to top dressing materials at a point-of-application. Even further, these inventions relate to delivering treated top dressing, specifically, to broadcast spreading of top dressing comprising sand and agriculturally active ingredients as moist and dry compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
    Inventors: A. Ronald Detweiler, Nancy M. Dykema, Joseph M. Vargas, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6077664
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions of thermostable DNA polymerases derived from the hyperthermophilic eubacteria. In particular, the present invention comprises thermostable DNA polymerases from the hyperthermophilic eubacterium known as Thermotoga neapolitana. The present invention provides methods for utilizing naturally-occurring and non-naturally-occurring forms of T. neopolitana DNA polymerase. The T. neopolitana DNA polymerases of the present invention are used in combination with other compounds, including but not limited to pyrophosphatase and DNA polymerases from other thermophilic or hyperthermophilic organisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Promega Corporation
    Inventors: Michael R. Slater, Fen Huang, James R. Hartnett, Elena Bolchakova, Douglas R. Storts, Paul Otto, Katharine M. Miller, Alexander Novikov, Galina A. Velikodvorskaya