Patents Examined by Alton Pryor
  • Patent number: 9339591
    Abstract: Embolization, as well as related particles, compositions, and methods, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul DiCarlo, Thomas V. Casey, II, Stephan P. Mangin
  • Patent number: 9332752
    Abstract: A powder plant treatment formulation for application to plants by insect vectoring includes: a plant treatment agent; a stabilizing agent bonded to the plant treatment agent for stabilizing the plant treatment agent; a moisture absorption agent for absorbing moisture from the formulation; an attracting agent for attracting the formulation to plants; and a diluent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Bee Vectoring Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Gordon Mason, John Clifford Sutton
  • Patent number: 9320707
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a pharmaceutical composition suitable as a depot formulation for administration via intramuscular or subcutaneous injection, comprising: (1) as an active ingredient a therapeutically effective amount of a 9-hydroxyrisperidone fatty acid ester or a salt, or a stereoisomer or a stereoisomeric mixture thereof in submicron form and (2) a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier; wherein the pharmaceutically acceptable carrier is water and the active ingredient is suspended therein: and with a process of preparing such a composition. The invention further concerns such a pharmaceutical composition for use as a medicament in the treatment of psychosis, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders, non-schizophrenic psychoses, behavioral disturbances associated with neurodegenerative disorders, e.g. in dementia, behavioral disturbances in mental retardation and autism, Tourette's syndrome, bipolar mania, depression, anxiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica, N.V.
    Inventors: Marc Karel Jozef François, Willy Maria Albert Carlo Dries, Esther Dina Guido Basstanie
  • Patent number: 9314031
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for improving the plant growth regulation of and/or enhancing crop plants, by applying to the plants a mixture of a plant growth regulator, and seaweed extract, and to a composition comprising the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Johannes Haas, Colin Mills, Manfred Hudetz
  • Patent number: 9307765
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel use of D-Napropamide and a method comprising the use of D-Napropamide and combinations comprising the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: UPL Limited
    Inventors: Jaidev Rajnikant Shroff, Vikram Rajnikant Shroff, Jean-Jacques Heller
  • Patent number: 9288987
    Abstract: The invention relates to a microbicidal composition which comprises a mixture of at least two components, the first component being 2-methyl-3-isothiazolone (MIT) and the second component being at least one active compound selected from the following groups of active compounds: a) compound having activated methylol groups b) quats or polyquats c) carbamates d) organic acids e) aromatic alcohols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: ISP INVESTMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Andrea Wingenfeld, Chistiane Ochs
  • Patent number: 9282736
    Abstract: This invention is based on unexpected effect of at least one thickener to maintain suspension or dispersion of solid particles in an oil medium. Such effect of thickener enables significant higher weight ratio of solid particles in such suspension composition as compared to previously known compositions. As a consequence, the suspension compositions provided herein enable more active ingredient in the solid particle to be present in a fixed volume or weight of such composition as compared to previously known compositions. One advantage of the suspension composition provided herein can be for aerial spraying of active ingredient such as herbicides, insecticides, or other growth regulating compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: AGROFRESH INC.
    Inventors: Edward Charles Kostansek, Richard Martin Jacobson
  • Patent number: 9277751
    Abstract: The invention provides a synthetic combination of a crop and at least one fungal endophyte, wherein the crop is a host plant of the endophyte. Provided are also methods and compositions for producing such synthetic combinations. The endophyte reproduces and enhances the agronomic characteristics of the crop. Methods for inoculating the host plant with the endophyte, for propagating the host-endophyte combination, and for detecting the presence of the endophyte and of its metabolites within a host plant are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: The Texas A&M University System
    Inventor: Gregory A. Sword
  • Patent number: 9271448
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for cultivating sugar cane comprising planting sugar cane shoots in a growth medium, growing seedlings from the shoots at a temperature of at least 15° C. and 10-120 days after having planted the shoots planting the seedlings obtained therefrom into the field if the growth medium is not a field, or, in case the growth medium is a field, exposing the seedlings obtained from the shoots to ambient conditions, where the seedling, while growing, is treated with at least one strobilurin fungicide and/or at least one carboxamide fungicide and/or at least one GABA antagonist insecticide and/or at least one nicotinic receptor agonists/antagonist insecticide and/or at least one chloride channel activator insecticide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Nilton Degaspari, Antonio Cesar Azenha, Paulo Cesar Queiroz, Cassio da Silva Cardoso Teixeira, Frank Werner, Marco Antonio Tavares-Rodrigues
  • Patent number: 9271489
    Abstract: A carbonate ester composition containing at least one carbonate ester, preferably an alkylene carbonate, and a sprout inhibitor. A tuber having, on at least a part of a surface thereof, the disclosed carbonate ester composition. A method of applying the carbonate ester composition onto the surface of a tuber. A method of applying a carbonate ester composition onto the surface of a potato tuber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: ACETO AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ron Schafer, Terry Kippley
  • Patent number: 9271502
    Abstract: A pesticide, fungicidal, bactericidal, anti-pathogen or biocidal composition includes at least one biologically inert carrier; and at least one ferrite or at least one doped component including at least one fixed copper compound doped with at least one compound selected from the group consisting of iron compounds, zinc compounds, magnesium compounds, calcium compounds, and combinations and/or mixtures thereof. In one embodiment, the doped component has a particle size of about 0.5 nm to about 30 microns. A method for the control of pests includes the step of applying to the pests or their growth habitat the aforementioned composition. The method also includes the control of disease in citrus plants caused by vectors such as Psyllid nymphs, by applying the aforementioned composition to their growth habitat in citrus groves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Inventor: Robert Sabin
  • Patent number: 9265260
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for delivering a substance into a plant. The systems and methods include a light energy that is applied to a first area on the plant to create a first indentation. The first indentation can be a minor incision or a rupture of a portion of the first area. Once the first indentation is created, a first dosage of the substance is applied to the first area in an amount effective to promote a biological response of the plant. It is contemplated that at least a portion of the substance is absorbed by the plant via the first indentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: GPD TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Gregory P. Drouillard
  • Patent number: 9259004
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of improving grass quality comprising applying an effective amount of a composition containing a phthalocyanine to the grass in the substantial absence of phosphorous acid, monoalkyl esters of phosphorous acid, or salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: BAYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH
    Inventors: Lawrence H. Norton, Richard Hanrahan, David R. Spak
  • Patent number: 9247734
    Abstract: A pesticide, fungicidal, bactericidal, anti-pathogen or biocidal composition includes at least one biologically inert carrier; and at least one doped component including at least one fixed copper compound doped with at least one compound selected from the group consisting of iron compounds, zinc compounds, magnesium compounds, calcium compounds, and combinations and/or mixtures thereof. In one embodiment, the doped component has a particle size of about 0.5 nm to about 30 microns. A method for the control of pests includes the step of applying to the pests or their growth habitat the aforementioned composition. The method also includes the control of disease in citrus plants caused by vectors such as Psyllid nymphs, by applying the aforementioned composition to their growth habitat in citrus groves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Inventor: Robert Sabin
  • Patent number: 9247749
    Abstract: The subject invention is directed toward antimicrobial agents and methods of treating and preventing infection by pathogenic microorganisms and endophytic microorganisms in a plant through the use of SecA inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Nian Wang, Nagaraju Akula
  • Patent number: 9242869
    Abstract: A mixed metal compound for pharmaceutical use is free from aluminum and has a phosphate binding capacity of at least 30%, by weight of the total weight of phosphate present, over a pH range of from 2-8. The compound is especially useful for treatment of hyperphosphataemia. The metals are preferably iron (III) and at least one of calcium, magnesium, lanthanum and cerium. A metal sulphate for pharmaceutical use is selected from at least one of calcium, lanthanum and cerium sulphate compounds and has a phosphate binding capacity of at least 30% by weight of the total phosphate present, over a pH range from 2-8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: OPKO IRELAND GLOBAL HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Norman Bryson Roberts, Maurice Webb, Benjamin Joseph Rankin
  • Patent number: 9241492
    Abstract: Seeds having applied to their surface a bioactive agrichemical composition comprising metal-acid solutions for protecting the seed from the adverse action of microorganisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sciessent LLC
    Inventor: Joseph J. Crudden
  • Patent number: 9237747
    Abstract: Provided herein are synergistic herbicidal compositions containing (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) insecticides, including but not limited to, acephate, carbaryl, carbofuran, cartap, chlorpyrifos, cypermethrin, dimethoate, dinotefuran, etofenprox, fenitrothion, fipronil, imidacloprid, lambda-cyhalothrin, malathion, methamidophos, piperonyl butoxide, pymetrozine, spinetoram, spinosad, sulfoxaflor and triazophos. The compositions and methods provided herein control undesirable vegetation, e.g., in direct-seeded, water-seeded and transplanted rice, cereals, wheat, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, corn/maize, sugarcane, sunflower, oilseed rape, canola, sugar beet, soybean, cotton, pineapple, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, turf, tree and vine orchards, plantation crops, vegetables, industrial vegetation management (IVM) and rights-of-way (ROW).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Carla N. Yerkes, Richard K. Mann
  • Patent number: 9237746
    Abstract: Described are herbicide compositions and methods for their preparation and use, in particular, herbicide compositions and methods relating to herbicide compositions containing herbicide compounds in acid form, and further including an acidifying agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Platte Chemical Co.
    Inventors: Scott K. Parrish, Richard A. Beardmore, Anthony E. Herold
  • Patent number: 9237750
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of Ornidazole and related compounds as herbicides active on a wide range of photoautotrophic organisms. The compounds of the present invention show effective herbicidal activity while being non-hazardous to the environment and to human health.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: RAMOT AT TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY LTD.
    Inventors: Yehouda Marcus, Michael Gurevitz