Patents by Inventor Edward Charles Daniel Cocking

Edward Charles Daniel Cocking 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).

  • Systemic non-nodular endosymbiotic nitrogen fixation in plants
    Patent number: 8137665
    Abstract: Non-leguminous crops, e.g. wheat, maize and rice, do not form nodules and are dependant for their nutrition on fixed nitrogen from the soil, or from chemical/nitrogenous fertilizers. The present invention provides non-leguminous plants and leguminous plants, including legumes that fail to nodulate with Rhizobia, with bacteria that enable them to fix nitrogen endophytically. Therefore, the plants contain nitrogen fixing bacteria the bacteria being located intracellularly in living plant cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: The University of Nottingham
    Inventor: Edward Charles Daniel Cocking
  • Systemic non-nodular endosymbiotic nitrogen fixation in plants
    Publication number: 20090106865
    Abstract: Non-leguminous crops, e.g. wheat, maize and rice, do not form nodules and are dependant for their nutrition on fixed nitrogen from the soil, or from chemical/nitrogenous fertilizers. The present invention provides non-leguminous plants and leguminous plants, including legumes that fail to nodulate with Rhizobia, with bacteria that enable them to fix nitrogen endophytically. Therefore, the plants contain nitrogen fixing bacteria the bacteria being located intracellularly in living plant cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventor: Edward Charles Daniel Cocking
  • Systemic non-nodular endosymbiotic nitrogen fixation in plants
    Patent number: 7470427
    Abstract: Non-leguminous crops, e.g. wheat, maize and rice, do not form nodules and are dependant for their nutrition on fixed nitrogen from the soil, or from chemical/nitrogenous fertilizers. The present invention provides non-leguminous plants and leguminous plants, including legumes that fail to nodulate with Rhizobia, with bacteria that enable them to fix nitrogen endophytically. Therefore, the plants contain nitrogen fixing bacteria the bacteria being located intacellularly in living plant cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: The University of Nottingham
    Inventor: Edward Charles Daniel Cocking
  • Systemic non-nodular endosymbiotic nitrogen fixation in plants
    Publication number: 20040235663
    Abstract: Non-leguminous crops, e.g. wheat, maize and rice, do not form nodules and are dependant for their nutrition on fixed nitrogen from the soil, or from chemical/nitrogenous fertilizers. The present invention provides non-leguminous plants and leguminous plants, including legumes that fail to nodulate with Rhizobia, with bacteria that enable them to fix nitrogen endophytically. Therefore, the plants contain nitrogen fixing bacteria the bacteria being located intacellularly in living plant cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventor: Edward Charles Daniel Cocking