Patents by Inventor Trevor Hodkinson

Trevor Hodkinson 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).

  • Method for improving the mean dry shoot weight, mean dry grain weight, and suppressing seed-borne infection in a cereal crop
    Patent number: 10765084
    Abstract: A seed coating composition comprising a mixture of a fungal root endophyte isolated from a root of the plant found in low-nutrient, drought-stressed or multiply-stressed conditions and a carrier medium for application of said composition to a target seed, wherein the endophyte is characterised in having a nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (nr ITS) with at least a 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 3 to 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignees: The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars & the Other Members of Board, of the College of the Holy & Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth, Near Dublin, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin
    Inventors: Brian Murphy, Trevor Hodkinson, Fiona Doohan
  • A METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE MEAN DRY SHOOT WEIGHT, MEAN DRY GRAIN WEIGHT, AND SUPPRESSING SEED-BORNE INFECTION IN A CEREAL CROP
    Publication number: 20170273271
    Abstract: A seed coating composition comprising a mixture of a fungal root endophyte isolated from a root of the plant found in low-nutrient, drought-stressed or multiply-stressed conditions and a carrier medium for application of said composition to a target seed, wherein the endophyte is characterised in having a nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (nr ITS) with at least a 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 3 to 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Brian Murphy, Trevor Hodkinson, Fiona Doohan
  • Cassette re-winding device
    Patent number: 4159810
    Abstract: A cassette re-winding device including a compartmented housing having a hinged lid to receive a cassette in one compartment having a rewind spindle connected to a battery operated motor located in the other compartment; and, an automatic switch positioned in the first-mentioned compartment which is actuated by the positioning of a cassette in the compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1979
    Assignees: Trevor Hodkinson, Control Switchboards Pty, Ltd., Neil Charles McCormack
    Inventor: Trevor Hodkinson