Patents by Inventor Donald Ort

Donald Ort has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Rerouting the photorespiration pathway in plants for increasing bioproduct yield
    Patent number: 10106826
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods of producing biological products or increasing production of such products through expression in a plant of a bacterial or plant glycolate catabolic cycle gene, such as glycolate dehydrogenease (GDH), glycolate oxidase (GO), or malate synthase (MS) in combination with a plant gene, such as farnesyl diphosphate synthase (FPS), squalene synthase (SQS), or PLAS. Also provided are plants, plants parts and compositions produced through methods of the present invention. The invention leads to two to five fold increase of end product yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignees: The Texas A&M University System, The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, University of Kentucky
    Inventors: Shuhua (Joshua) Yuan, Donald Ort, Joseph Chappell, Xinguang Zhu, Hong Ma, Yong Kyoung Kim
  • REROUTING THE PHOTORESPIRATION PATHWAY IN PLANTS FOR INCREASING BIOPRODUCT YIELD
    Publication number: 20140283219
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods of producing biological products or increasing production of such products through expression in a plant of a bacterial or plant glycolate catabolic cycle gene, such as glycolate dehydrogenease (GDH), glycolate oxidase (GO), or malate synthase (MS) in combination with a plant gene, such as farnesyl diphosphate synthase (FPS), squalene synthase (SQS), or PLAS. Also provided are plants, plants parts and compositions produced through methods of the present invention. The invention leads to two to five fold increase of end product yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicants: The Texas A&M University System, The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, University of Kentucky
    Inventors: Shuhua (Joshua) Yuan, Donald Ort, Joseph Chappell, Xinguang Zhu, Hong Ma, Yong Kyoung Kim