Patents Represented by Attorney John Fado

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  • In ovo immunization of avian embryos with oil-emulsion vaccines
    Patent number: 5817320
    Abstract: Avian diseases, particularly those which threaten birds early in life, are controlled by embryonal vaccination using water-in-oil-in-water emulsion vaccines. The site of inoculation is the albumin end of the egg via entry through the air cell end of the egg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Agriculture
    Inventor: Henry D. Stone
  • Apomixis for producing true-breeding plant progenies
    Patent number: 5811636
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to cultivated plants that contain the gene(s) from Pennisetum squamulatum which express apomixis. More specifically, it relates to apomictic backcross hybrids (BC) that closely resemble pearl millet in morphology and their progeny. These apomictic pearl millets are useful as forage or grain cultivars or used as male pollinators on sexual germplasm to produce new apomictic forage and grain hybrids. The plants can also be used as a source of the gene(s) for controlling apomixis in order to transfer the apomictic mechanism into other cultivated plants to develop true-breeding hybrids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Wayne W. Hanna, Peggy Ozias-Akins, Michel Dujardin
  • Livestock mucosal competitive exclusion culture to reduce enteropathogenic bacteria
    Patent number: 5807546
    Abstract: A preparation from the scrapings of healthy animals is cultured and administered to animals. This preparation confers a strong measure of protection against the subsequent colonization by enteropathogenic bacteria, including Salmonella species, Campylobacter species and Escherichia coli 0157:H7, which currently cause an unacceptably high incidence of morbidity and mortality in humans and reduce productivity in livestock populations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Norman J. Stern, Nelson A. Cox, J. Stan Bailey, Paula J. Cray
  • Biological vacuum device to enhance environmental quality
    Patent number: 5806238
    Abstract: A vacuum device having a hand-held intake and collection unit and a hand-held heater/air exhaust tube assembly is used to chase and collect pests, such as insects, and their associated allergens from their harborages. The device has a system of filter assemblies which remove contaminants from the air and exhausts clean air back into the surrounding environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Agriculture
    Inventors: Richard J. Brenner, David E. Milne, Stoy A. Hedges
  • Culture medium for parasitic and predaceous insects
    Patent number: 5799607
    Abstract: A variety of beneficial insects, from the egg stage to adult stage, have been successfully reared on a defined insect culture medium with a supplement containing poultry egg yolk, ground liver and glutamine. The medium contains no insect components. The medium is encapsulated to facilitate feeding and where applicable oviposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Patrick D. Greany, James E. Carpenter
  • Method for the control of weeds with weakly virulent or non-virulent plant pathogens
    Patent number: 5795845
    Abstract: A bioherbicidal composition comprising an invert emulsion carrier and a microorganism which is a non- or weakly-virulent pathogen in the absence of the carrier is useful as a herbicidal agent when the microorganism is present in an amount effective for herbicidal activity to occur in the presence of the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Argiculture
    Inventors: Shaw-Ming Yang, William Minor Dowler, Norman Werth Schaad, William Joseph Connick, Jr.
  • Enhanced insect resistance in plants genetically engineered with a plant hormone gene involved in cytokinin biosynthesis
    Patent number: 5792934
    Abstract: A transgenic plant into which a chimeric gene comprising a wound inducible promoter and a gene for an enzyme involved in cytokinin biosynthesis has been introduced shows enhanced resistance to insect infestation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Ann C. Smigocki, John W. Neal, Jr.
  • Backpack sprayer for arthropod, arthropod eggs, or arthropod egg parasitoids contained in arthropod eggs
    Patent number: 5785245
    Abstract: A backpack sprayer for spraying arthropods or arthropod eggs, such as beneficial mites or beneficial insect eggs, or insect eggs containing parasitoids, directly onto plants is disclosed which uses excess air generated by a compressor to produce a coarse or fine spray of an aqueous suspension containing the arthropods or eggs as they exit from a spray gun. A stir bar magnet in a spray tank, controlled by a magnetic stirrer motor, keeps the arthropods or eggs evenly suspended in an aqueous solution. The sprayer provides an economical and alternative strategy for the delivery of arthropods such as beneficial mites and eggs to agricultural commodities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Walker Louis Tedders, Jr., John L. Blythe
  • Inhibiting plant pathogens with an antagonistic microorganism(s)
    Patent number: 5780023
    Abstract: The present invention is drawn to biological control of plant pathogens (e.g. either preharvest or postharvest diseases) on agricultural commodities (such as fruits, vegetables, cereals, grains, nuts, seeds and silage) by use of at least one microorganism which is an antagonist against plant pathogens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Randy J. McLaughlin, Charles L. Wilson, Edo Chalutz
  • Trapping system for mediterranean fruit flies
    Patent number: 5766617
    Abstract: A trapping system for capturing male and female frugivorous pest insects for detecting, monitoring, and/or controlling that includes an attractant composition of ammonium acetate and putrescine and a synergist for the attractant composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Robert R. Heath, Nancy D. Epsky
  • Ovo immunization of avian embryos with oil-emulsion vaccines
    Patent number: 5750101
    Abstract: Avian diseases, particularly those which threaten birds early in life, are controlled by embryonal vaccination using oil emulsion vaccines. The site of inoculation is the albumin end of the egg via entry through the air cell end of the egg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventor: Henry D. Stone
  • Oil emulsion vaccines prepared with animal, vegetable, and synthetic oils using a mixture of nonionic surfactants
    Patent number: 5744137
    Abstract: A composition of a mixture of nonionic surfactants in water-in-oil emulsion vaccines allows the use of animal, vegetable, and synthetic oils as well as mineral oil and pristane. These non-mineral oil vaccines are as efficacious as mineral oil-containing vaccines without the problems associated with the use of mineral oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Agriculture
    Inventor: Henry D. Stone
  • Biological control of diseases of harvested agricultural commodities using strains of the yeast candida oleophila
    Patent number: 5741699
    Abstract: The present invention is drawn to isolates of Candida oleophila which are effective for the control of postharvest diseases in fruit and to biocontrol compositions which include such isolates. A method of utilizing the isolates to inhibit pathogens which cause postharvest diseases is also described. The organisms were isolated from the surface of tomato fruit and are useful for the control of a variety of fruit-rot pathogens in a variety of fruits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Charles L. Wilson, Michael E. Wisniewski, Edo Chalutz
  • Ovo antibiotic and microbial treatment to dimenish salmonellae populations in avians
    Patent number: 5722342
    Abstract: To reduce the level of contamination of processed poultry, pathogen-free or nearly pathogen-free birds must be delivered to the processing plant. Therefore, it is important to prevent and/or reduce early contamination and spread of Salmonella in poultry. An in ovo method of treatment with a defined microbial preparation and an antibiotic to reduce colonization of newly hatched chicks by enteropathogenic microorganisms is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Inventors: J. Eric Line, Norman J. Stern, Nelson A. Cox, J. Stan Bailey, Catherine Ricks, Patricia Phelps, Michael Knight
  • Repellents for ants
    Patent number: 5721274
    Abstract: A method has been discovered for repelling ants by treating objects or areas with effective amounts of compositions that include (a) one or more C.sub.6 to C.sub.8 carboxylic acids; (b) one or more C.sub.6 to C.sub.14 alcohols; (c) one or more esters which are reaction products of (a) and (b) or an ester which is a reaction product of the repellents and other carboxylic acids or alcohols; (d) one or more C.sub.6 to C.sub.11 carboxylic acid esters; (e) one or more C.sub.6 to C.sub.14 ketones; (f) one or more C.sub.6 to C.sub.14 aldehydes; or (g) mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Robert K. Vander Meer, William A. Banks, Clifford S. Lofgren
  • Beneficial insect egg spraying device
    Patent number: 5718377
    Abstract: A device for spraying beneficial insect eggs directly onto plants is disclosed which has an air system, an aqueous solution system, a compressed air system for pressurization and agitation, a pressure release system, a tank assembly, and a remote control assembly. There are three different air systems suitable for spraying trees, plants of moderate height or row crops; two different aqueous solution systems, one for spraying moderate height plants and row crops and one for spraying trees. The device provides an economical and alternative strategy for the delivery of beneficial insect eggs to agricultural commodities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Walker Louis Tedders, John L. Blythe
  • Hypoallergenic natural rubber products from parthenium argentatum (gray) and other non-hevea brasiliensis species
    Patent number: 5717050
    Abstract: Hypoallergenic products are made from Parthenum argentatum (Gray), Ficus elastica and other non-hevea rubber-containing plants by homogenizing the plants in an aqueous medium, filtering the homogenate and separating the rubber-containing phase from the aqueous phase by centrifugation. Optionally, the filtrate may be clarified before separation. The hypoallergenic rubber products do not contain the rubber-associated proteins which are responsible for sensitization in allergic individuals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventor: Katrinia Cornish
  • Production of biodiesel, lubricants and fuel and lubricant additives
    Patent number: 5713965
    Abstract: A method is described which utilizes lipases to transesterify triglyceride-containing substances and to esterify free fatty acids to alkyl esters using short chain alcohols. The alkyl esters are useful as alternatives or additives to automotive fuels and lubricants. The method is particularly advantageous because it utilizes inexpensive feedstocks such as animal fats, vegetable oils, rendered fats and restaurant grease as substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Thomas A. Foglia, Lloyd A. Nelson, William N. Marmer
  • Fiber and fiber products produced from feathers
    Patent number: 5705030
    Abstract: A wide variety of end products may be manufactured from fibers or fiber pulp derived from feathers. Examples of such end products are paper and paper-like products, non-woven and woven fibers, insulation, filters, extrusions, and composite sheets and plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: George Gassner, III, Walter Schmidt, Michael J. Line, Clayton Thomas, Rolland M. Waters
  • Fuels as solvents for the conduct of enzymatic reactions
    Patent number: 5697986
    Abstract: The present invention describes a method of producing biofuels by carrying out the enzymatic transesterification of fatty acid-containing materials directly in automotive fuels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventor: Michael J. Haas