Patents by Inventor Timothy Caspar

Timothy Caspar 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).

  • AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS, COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING CROP YIELD
    Publication number: 20190233345
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to systems, compositions and methods for providing nutrients, fertilizers, crop protection agents and other crop inputs for a plant. The disclosure also relates to methods for increasing the uptake of a crop active compound into a growing plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicants: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY, PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: MARIOS AVGOUSTI, ROBERT RAY BURCH, TIMOTHY CASPAR, JASON DEBRUIN, JOHN D. EVERARD, RAJEEV L. GOROWARA, DARREN B. GRUIS, RAFAEL HERRMANN, SHANE FRANCIS KENDRA, KATRINA KRATZ, JACY CAMERON MACCHIA, RYAN ARTHUR PAPE, JEFFREY R. SCHUSSLER, NING WANG, JIHUA ZHANG
  • Isolation and use of ryanodine receptors
    Patent number: 8551694
    Abstract: The genes encoding ryanodine receptor homologs have been characterized from multiple insect families. The genes and their corresponding polypeptides have a number of uses including but not limited to the development of screens to identify insecticidally active compounds. Methods are outlined for overcoming toxic effects of expressing recombinant proteins in host cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Steven Gutteridge, Timothy Caspar, Daniel Cordova, James J. Rauh, Yong Tao, Lihong Wu
  • ISOLATION AND USE OF RYANODINE RECEPTORS
    Publication number: 20120276554
    Abstract: The genes encoding ryanodine receptor homologs have been characterized from multiple insect families. The genes and their corresponding polypeptides have a number of uses including but not limited to the development of screens to identify insecticidally active compounds. Methods are outlined for overcoming toxic effects of expressing recombinant proteins in host cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Steven Gutteridge, Timothy Caspar, Daniel Cordova, James J. Rauh, Yong Tao, Lihong Wu, Rejane M. Smith
  • Ryanodine receptor polypeptides
    Patent number: 8101715
    Abstract: The genes encoding ryanodine receptor homologs have been characterized from multiple insect families including lepidopteran tobacco budworm (Heliothis virescens), homopteran green peach aphid (Myzus persicae), corn plant hopper (Peregrinus maidis), cotton melon aphid (Aphis gossypii) and fruitfly (Drosophila melanogaster). The full-length genes have been isolated, cloned and amplified in bacterial cells. Expression in insect cells shows that the recombinant protein folds into a functional calcium release channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Timothy Caspar, Daniel Cordova, Steven Gutteridge, James J. Rauh, Lihong Wu, Yong Tao
  • RYANODINE RECEPTOR POLYPEPTIDES
    Publication number: 20110269144
    Abstract: The genes encoding ryanodine receptor homologs have been characterized from multiple insect families including lepidopteran tobacco budworm (Heliothis virescens), homopteran green peach aphid (Myzus persicae), corn plant hopper (Peregrinus maidis), cotton melon aphid (Aphis gossypii) and fruitfly (Drosophila melanogaster). The full-length genes have been isolated, cloned and amplified in bacterial cells. Expression in insect cells shows that the recombinant protein folds into a functional calcium release channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Steven Gutteridge, Timothy Caspar, Daniel Cordova, James J. Rauh, Yong Tao, Lihong Wu, Rejane M. Smith
  • ISOLATION AND USE OF RYANODINE RECEPTORS
    Publication number: 20110086345
    Abstract: The genes encoding ryanodine receptor homologs have been characterized from multiple insect families including lepidopteran tobacco budworm (Heliothis virescens), homopteran green peach aphid (Myzus persicae), corn plant hopper (Peregrinus maidis), cotton melon aphid (Aphis gossypii) and fruitfly (Drosophila melanogaster). The full-length genes have been isolated, cloned and amplified in bacterial cells. Expression in insect cells shows that the recombinant protein folds into a functional calcium release channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Steven Gutteridge, Timothy Caspar, Daniel Cordova, James J. Rauh, Yong Tao, Lihong Wu, Rejane M. Smith
  • EXPRESSION OF RUBISCO ENZYME FROM A NON-RUBISCO LOCUS
    Publication number: 20090172832
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for transformation of plant chloroplasts with genetic constructs by insertion of a RUBISCO gene in a non-RUBISCO site of the chloroplast genome to generate transformed plants that produce large amounts of a functional RUBISCO enzyme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: TIMOTHY CASPAR, Theodore Mitchell Klein, Min Qi, Jianjun Yang
  • EXPRESSION OF RECOMBINANT GENES ENCODING RUBISCO PROTEINS IN C3 PLANTS
    Publication number: 20090172842
    Abstract: The invention describes isolation and functional expression of RUBISCO genes derived from C4 plants and red algae in C3 plant hosts. Specifically the RUBISCO genes of Amaranthus edulis were functionally expressed at high levels in the transgenic crop plants soybean and tobacco, while the RUBISCO gene from Griffithsia monilis alga was expressed at lower levels in the transgenic crop tobacco.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: TIMOTHY CASPAR, Theodore Mitchell Klein, Min Qi, Jianjun Yang
  • Ryanodine receptor polypeptides
    Patent number: 7498408
    Abstract: The genes encoding ryanodine receptor homologs have been characterized from multiple insect families including lepidopteran tobacco budworm (Heliothis virescens), homopteran green peach aphid (Myzus persicae), corn plant hopper (Peregrinus maidis), cotton melon aphid (Aphis gossypii) and fruitfly (Drosophila melanogaster). The full-length genes have been isolated, cloned and amplified in bacterial cells. Expression in insect cells shows that the recombinant protein folds into a functional calcium release channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Steven Gutteridge, Timothy Caspar, Daniel Cordova, James J. Rauh, Rejane M. Smith, Lihong Wu, Yong Tao
  • Isolation and use of ryanodine receptors
    Publication number: 20070105098
    Abstract: The genes encoding ryanodine receptor homologs have been characterized from multiple insect families including lepidopteran tobacco budworm (Heliothis virescens), homopteran green peach aphid (Myzus persicae), corn plant hopper (Peregrinus maidis), cotton melon aphid (Aphis gossypii) and fruitfly (Drosophila melanogaster). The full-length genes have been isolated, cloned and amplified in bacterial cells. Expression in insect cells shows that the recombinant protein folds into a functional calcium release channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Inventors: Steven Gutteridge, Timothy Caspar, Daniel Cordova, James Rauh, Rejane Smith, Lihong Wu, Yong Tao
  • Nucleic acids encoding ryanodine receptors
    Patent number: 7205147
    Abstract: The genes encoding ryanodine receptor homologs have been characterized from multiple insect families including lepidopteran tobacco budworm (Heliothis virescens), homopteran green peach aphid (Myzus persicae), corn plant hopper (Peregrinus maidis), cotton melon aphid (Aphis gossypii) and fruitfly (Drosophila melanogaster). The full-length genes have been isolated, cloned and amplified in bacterial cells. Expression in insect cells shows that the recombinant protein folds into a functional calcium release channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Steven Gutteridge, Timothy Caspar, Daniel Cordova, Yong Tao, Lihong Wu, Rejane M. Smith
  • Isolation and use of ryanodine receptors
    Publication number: 20040171114
    Abstract: The genes encoding ryanodine receptor homologs have been characterized from multiple insect families including lepidopteran tobacco budworm (Heliothis virescens), homopteran green peach aphid (Myzus persicae), corn plant hopper (Peregrinus maidis), cotton melon aphid (Aphis gossypii) and fruitfly (Drosophila melanogaster). The full-length genes have been isolated, cloned and amplified in bacterial cells. Expression in insect cells shows that the recombinant protein folds into a functional calcium release channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventors: Steven Gutteridge, Timothy Caspar, Daniel Cordova, James J. Rauh, Yong Tao, Lihong Wu, Rejane M. Smith
  • Agricultural product microscreen method and apparatus
    Patent number: H1919
    Abstract: Methods and apparati for screening compounds for agricultural activity has now been developed which employ e.g., intact plants grown in microtiter plates on very small amounts of plant growth media containing a test compound. In comparison to the standard greenhouse screen, the microscreen requires vastly less space, labor, and test compound. However, unlike in vitro screens, responses of intact plants are assayed. Using the microscreen, high-throughput screening of test compounds can be accomplished using whole plant responses as the assay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Timothy Caspar, Kevin Eugene Diehl, Steven Gutteridge, Mary Kolean Koeppe, Kevin Ray Oldenburg