Patents by Inventor Stephen James Rice

Stephen James Rice 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).

  • Patent number: 7932374
    Abstract: Novel isolated vascular tissue-specific plant polynucleotide promoter sequences are provided, together with genetic constructs comprising such polynucleotides. Methods for using such constructs in modulating the transcription of DNA sequences of interest are also disclosed, together with transgenic plants comprising such constructs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Arborgen, Inc.
    Inventors: Ranjan Perera, Stephen James Rice, Clare Katherine Eagleton
  • Patent number: 6101457
    Abstract: A test access port for an integrated circuit (or circuits) having a test register and a controller is provided. The controller enables the testability functions that have been selected by the test register. The test register performs the select function and the controller performs the enable function. An integrated circuit, having operation circuitry having nodes and external terminals for input and output of signals during normal operation, a test controller connected to at least a first one of said external terminals for receiving signals and for providing output signals during a test operation, and a test register for containing signals representative of selected tests to be performed connected to said test controller and at least a second one of said external terminals and responsive to said output signals of said test controller for enabling selected tests is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Phillip Thomas Barch, Robert Bruce Wong, Stephen James Rice