Patents by Inventor Frank C. Kohn

Frank C. Kohn 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).

  • Publication number: 20230276806
    Abstract: Compositions for improving plant health, the compositions comprising at least one water-soluble pesticide and at least one non-herbicidal water-insoluble agrochemical, are described. Also described are processes for preparing the compositions and methods of improving agronomic crop plant health using the compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: William Abraham, Andrew Dyszlewski, John W. Hemminghaus, Frank C. Kohn, Daniel R. Wright, Junhua Zhang
  • Patent number: 11700853
    Abstract: Compositions for improving plant health, the compositions comprising at least one water-soluble pesticide and at least one non-herbicidal water-insoluble agrochemical, are described. Also described are processes for preparing the compositions and methods of improving agronomic crop plant health using the compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: William Abraham, Andrew Dyszlewski, John W. Hemminghaus, Frank C. Kohn, Daniel R. Wright, Junhua Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230079394
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods for prevention and prophylactic treatment of plant diseases by application of glyphosate to a plant in need of treatment. In certain embodiments, soybean plants in need of treatment at vegetative and reproductive growth stages prior to or subsequent to infection, may be treated with glyphosate in order to prevent infection or suppress disease development, symptomatology, and yield loss. Application of a fungicide (e.g. a strobilurin fungicide such as pyraclostrobin or picoxystrobin) together with glyphosate, is also contemplated. Soybean diseases that may be treated in this manner include Soybean Sudden Death, Brown Stem Rot, Stem Canker, and Charcoal Rot, among others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Frank C. Kohn, Michael S. South
  • Patent number: 11479787
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods for prevention and prophylactic treatment of plant diseases by application of glyphosate to a plant in need of treatment. In certain embodiments, soybean plants in need of treatment at vegetative and reproductive growth stages prior to or subsequent to infection, may be treated with glyphosate in order to prevent infection or suppress disease development, symptomatology, and yield loss. Application of a fungicide (e.g. a strobilurin fungicide such as pyraclostrobin or picoxystrobin) together with glyphosate, is also contemplated. Soybean diseases that may be treated in this manner include Soybean Sudden Death, Brown Stem Rot, Stem Canker, and Charcoal Rot, among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Frank C. Kohn, Michael S. South
  • Publication number: 20200296968
    Abstract: Compositions for improving plant health, the compositions comprising at least one water-soluble pesticide and at least one non-herbicidal water-insoluble agrochemical, are described. Also described are processes for preparing the compositions and methods of improving agronomic crop plant health using the compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: William Abraham, Andrew Dyszlewski, John W. Hemminghaus, Frank C. Kohn, Daniel R. Wright, Junhua Zhang
  • Patent number: 10709134
    Abstract: Compositions for improving plant health, the compositions comprising at least one water-soluble pesticide and at least one non-herbicidal water-insoluble agrochemical, are described. Also described are processes for preparing the compositions and methods of improving agronomic crop plant health using the compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Junhua Zhang, Frank C. Kohn, Daniel R. Wright, Andrew D. Dyszlewski, William Abraham, John W. Hemminghaus
  • Publication number: 20200214298
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods for prevention and prophylactic treatment of plant diseases by application of glyphosate to a plant in need of treatment. In certain embodiments, soybean plants in need of treatment at vegetative and reproductive growth stages prior to or subsequent to infection, may be treated with glyphosate in order to prevent infection or suppress disease development, symptomatology, and yield loss. Application of a fungicide (e.g. a strobilurin fungicide such as pyraclostrobin or picoxystrobin) together with glyphosate, is also contemplated. Soybean diseases that may be treated in this manner include Soybean Sudden Death, Brown Stem Rot, Stem Canker, and Charcoal Rot, among others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Frank C. Kohn, Michael S. South
  • Patent number: 10555527
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods for prevention and prophylactic treatment of plant diseases by application of glyphosate to a plant in need of treatment. In certain embodiments, soybean plants in need of treatment at vegetative and reproductive growth stages prior to or subsequent to infection, may be treated with glyphosate in order to prevent infection or suppress disease development, symptomatology, and yield loss. Application of a fungicide (e.g. a strobilurin fungicide such as pyraclostrobin or picoxystrobin) together with glyphosate, is also contemplated. Soybean diseases that may be treated in this manner include Soybean Sudden Death, Brown Stem Rot, Stem Canker, and Charcoal Rot, among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Frank C. Kohn, Michael S. South
  • Patent number: 8642505
    Abstract: A method of preventing damage to the shoots and foliage of a plant by a pest includes treating a seed having an exogenous gene that encodes for the production of a protein having activity against European corn borer or corn root worm with a composition comprising at least one pyrethrin or synthetic pyrethroid that is selected on the basis of having an activity against an insect other than European corn borer or corn root worm. Treated seeds are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Frank C. Kohn
  • Patent number: 8592648
    Abstract: A method of preventing damage to the seed and/or shoots and foliage of a plant by a pest includes treating the seed from which the plant grows with a composition that includes a combination of thiamethoxam and at least one pyrethrin or synthetic pyrethroid which is selected from the group consisting of taufluvalinate, flumethrin, trans-cyfluthrin, kadethrin, bioresmethrin, tetramethrin, phenothrin, empenthrin, cyphenothrin, prallethrin, imiprothrin, allethrin and bioallethrin. The treatment is applied to the unsown seed. In another embodiment, the seed is a transgenic seed having at least one heterologous gene encoding for the expression of a protein having pesticidal activity against a first pest and the composition has activity against at least one second pest. Treated seeds are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Jawed Asrar, Frank C. Kohn
  • Patent number: 8524634
    Abstract: A method of preventing damage to the seed and/or shoots and foliage of a plant by a pest includes treating the seed from which the plant grows with a composition that includes a combination of clothianidin and at least one pyrethrin or synthetic pyrethroid. The treatment is applied to the unsown seed. In another embodiment, the seed is a transgenic seed having at least one heterologous gene encoding for the expression of a protein having pesticidal activity against a first pest and the composition has activity against at least one second pest. Treated seeds are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Inventors: Jawed Asrar, Frank C. Kohn
  • Publication number: 20130157855
    Abstract: Compositions for improving plant health, the compositions comprising at least one water-soluble pesticide and at least one non-herbicidal water-insoluble agrochemical, are described. Also described are processes for preparing the compositions and methods of improving agronomic crop plant health using the compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Junhua Zhang, Frank C. Kohn, Daniel R. Wright, Andrew D. Dyszlewski, William Abraham, John W. Hemminghaus
  • Publication number: 20120135966
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods for prevention and prophylactic treatment of plant diseases by application of glyphosate to a plant in need of treatment. In certain embodiments, soybean plants in need of treatment at vegetative and reproductive growth stages prior to or subsequent to infection, may be treated with glyphosate in order to prevent infection or suppress disease development, symptomatology, and yield loss. Application of a fungicide (e.g. a strobilurin fungicide such as pyraclostrobin or picoxystrobin) together with glyphosate, is also contemplated. Soybean diseases that may be treated in this manner include Soybean Sudden Death, Brown Stem Rot, Stem Canker, and Charcoal Rot, among others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Inventors: Frank C. Kohn, Michael S. South
  • Patent number: 8101549
    Abstract: A method of preventing damage to the shoots and foliage of a plant by a pest includes treating a seed having an exogenous gene that encodes for the production of a protein having activity against European corn borer or corn root worm with a composition comprising at least one pyrethrin or synthetic pyrethroid that is selected on the basis of having an activity against an insect other than European corn borer or corn root worm. Treated seeds are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Frank C. Kohn
  • Patent number: 8080496
    Abstract: A method to protect corn against feeding damage by one or more pests includes the treatment of corn seed having a transgenic event that is targeted against at least one of the pests with thiamethoxam in an amount that is effective against the same or another of the one or more pests. Seeds having such protection are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.
    Inventors: Jawed Asrar, Frank C. Kohn, Ernest F. Sanders
  • Patent number: 7608761
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method to control diseases of MON89788 soybean by treatment with formulations and mixtures containing glyphosate. In particular, the formulations and mixtures are effective at controlling fungal diseases of MON89788. More specifically, the invention relates to a method to control the severity of leaf rust disease on MON89788.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: George Jamie Baley, Frank C. Kohn, John W. Pitkin, Jennifer Rinehart, Jeremey H. Taylor
  • Patent number: 7452546
    Abstract: One or more agricultural active ingredients (such as fungicides or insecticides) are entrapped in polymeric matrixes to form particles having a diameter in the range from about 0.2 to about 200 microns. The particles are applied to soil, to seeds, or to plants and release the active ingredient(s) at a rate sufficiently low to avoid phytoxicity but at a rate sufficiently high to provide effective amounts of the active ingredient(s), preferably throughout the growing period of the plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: M. Francis Botts, Frank C. Kohn, Maria L. Miller
  • Patent number: 7070795
    Abstract: One or more agricultural active ingredients (such as fungicides or insecticides) are entrapped in polymeric matrixes to form particles having a diameter in the range from about 0.2 to about 200 microns. The particles are applied to soil, to seeds, or to plants and release the active ingredient(s) at a rate sufficiently low to avoid phytoxicity but at a rate sufficiently high to provide effective amounts of the active ingredient(s), preferably throughout the growing period of the plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Monsanto Company
    Inventors: M. Francis Botts, Frank C. Kohn, Maria L. Miller
  • Patent number: 6903093
    Abstract: A method of preventing damage to the seed and/or shoots and foliage of a plant by a pest includes treating the seed from which the plant grows with a composition that includes a combination of thiamethoxam and at least one pyrethrin or synthetic pyrethroid which is selected from the group consisting of taufluvalinate, flumethrin, trans-cyfluthrin, kadethrin, bioresmethrin, tetramethrin, phenothrin, empenthrin, cyphenothrin, prallethrin, imiprothrin, allethrin and bioallethrin. The treatment is applied to the unsown seed. In another embodiment, the seed is a transgenic seed having at least one heterologous gene encoding for the expression of a protein having pesticidal activity against a first pest and the composition has activity against at least one second pest. Treated seeds are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignees: Monsanto Technology LLC, Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.
    Inventors: Jawed Asrar, Frank C. Kohn
  • Patent number: 6838473
    Abstract: A method of preventing damage to the seed and/or shoots and foliage of a plant by a pest includes treating the seed from which the plant grows with a composition that includes a combination of clothianidin and at least one pyrethrin or synthetic pyrethroid. The treatment is applied to the unsown seed. In another embodiment, the seed is a transgenic seed having at least one heterologous gene encoding for the expression of a protein having pesticidal activity against a first pest and the composition has activity against at least one second pest. Treated seeds are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jawed Asrar, Frank C. Kohn