Patents by Inventor Larry A. Muir

Larry A. Muir 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).

  • Use of certain compounds in livestock food as growth promotants for better feed utilization and improved carcass composition
    Patent number: 5061709
    Abstract: A method is described in which the feed utilization by livestock is improved by the incorporation in the feed or drinking water of the said livestock of certain compounds, with resultant increase in body weight, decrease in body fat and increase in body protein for the same food intake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1991
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Larry A. Muir
  • Use of certain compounds in livestock food as growth promotants for better feed utilization and improved carcass composition
    Patent number: 4959382
    Abstract: A method is described in which the feed utilization by livestock is improved by the incorporation in the feed or drinking water of the said livestock of certain compounds, with resultant increase in body weight, decrease in body fat and increase in body protein for the same food intake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Larry A. Muir
  • Use of certain compounds in livestock food as growth promotants for better feed utilization and improved carcass composition
    Patent number: 4847302
    Abstract: A method is described in which the feed utilization by livestock is improved by the incorporation in the feed or drinking water of the said livestock of certain compounds, with resultant increase in body weight, decrease in body fat and increase in body protein for the same food intake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Larry A. Muir
  • Use of certain compounds in livestock food as growth promotants for better feed utilization and improved carcass composition
    Patent number: 4761421
    Abstract: A method is described in which the feed utilization by livestock is improved by the incorporation in the feed or drinking water of the said livestock of certain compounds, with resultant increase in body weight, decrease in body fat and increase in body protein for the same food intake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1988
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Larry A. Muir
  • Control of lactic acidosis in ruminants
    Patent number: 4061732
    Abstract: The nutritional disease, lactic acidosis, is successfully prevented by orally administering to the animal an effective amount of a sulfur-containing peptide antibiotic. In particular thiopeptin and thiostrepton are particularly effective sulfur-containing peptide antibiotics useful against lactic acidosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1977
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Larry A. Muir, Albert Barreto