Patents Assigned to James Cook University
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Patent number: 11883449Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of reducing total gas production and/or methane production in a ruminant animal.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Meat & Livestock Australia Limited, James Cook UniversityInventors: Lorenna Machado, Marie Elisabeth Magnusson, Nigel William Tomkins, Robert Douglas Kinley, Peter Canisius Denys, Nicholas Andrew Paul
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Publication number: 20210259284Abstract: The invention relates to utilising red marine macroalgae to provide improvements in growth performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicants: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, MEAT & LIVESTOCK AUSTRALIA LIMITED, JAMES COOK UNIVERSITYInventors: Nigel William TOMKINS, Rocky DE NYS, Robert Douglas KINLEY, Marie Elisabeth MAGNUSSON, Lorenna MACHADO, Nicholas Andrew PAUL
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Patent number: 11006655Abstract: The invention relates to utilising red marine macroalgae to provide improvements in growth performance of livestock, particularly ruminant animals for red meat production, especially cattle, in pasture and feedlot farming systems. There is provided a method for improving the growth performance of a livestock animal in a farming system including: providing a red marine macroalgae to a farming system to enable consumption of the red marine macroalgae by a livestock animal in the farming system; thereby improving the growth performance of the livestock animal in the system.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignees: JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY, COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, MEAT & LIVESTOCK AUSTRALIA LIMITEDInventors: Nigel William Tomkins, Rocky De Nys, Robert Douglas Kinley, Marie Elisabeth Magnusson, Lorenna Machado, Nicholas Andrew Paul
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Publication number: 20210077555Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of reducing total gas production and/or methane production in a ruminant animal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Meat & Livestock Australia Limited, James Cook UniversityInventors: Lorenna MACHADO, Marie Elisabeth MAGNUSSON, Nigel William TOMKINS, Robert Douglas KINLEY, Peter Canisius DENYS, Nicholas Andrew PAUL
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Patent number: 10881697Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of reducing total gas production and/or methane production in a ruminant animal.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignees: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Meat & Livestock Australia Limited, James Cook UniversityInventors: Lorenna Machado, Marie Elisabeth Magnusson, Nigel William Tomkins, Robert Douglas Kinley, Peter Canisius Denys, Nicholas Andrew Paul
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Publication number: 20190174793Abstract: The invention relates to utilising red marine macroalgae to provide improvements in growth performance of livestock, particularly ruminant animals for red meat production, especially cattle, in pasture and feedlot farming systems. There is provided a method for improving the growth performance of a livestock animal in a farming system including: providing a red marine macroalgae to a farming system to enable consumption of the red marine macroalgae by a livestock animal in the farming system; thereby improving the growth performance of the livestock animal in the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2016Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicants: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, MEAT & LIVESTOCK AUSTRALIA LIMITED, JAMES COOK UNIVERSITYInventors: Nigel William TOMKINS, Rocky DE NYS, Robert Douglas KINLEY, Marie Elisabeth MAGNUSSON, Lorenna MACHADO, Nicholas Andrew PAUL
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Patent number: 10245615Abstract: A method of protecting a polymer surface against fouling, which method comprises embedding in the polymer surface particles having antifouling properties, wherein the particles are embedded in the polymer surface by a spray mechanism in which the particles are accelerated and sprayed onto the polymer surface with a suitable velocity such that the particles become embedded in the polymer surface, wherein the particles are embedded in the polymer surface without an adhesive or binder and wherein the particles do not form a continuous layer on the polymer surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2011Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignees: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, JAMES COOK UNIVERSITYInventors: Andrew James Poole, Rocky De Nys, Peter King, Stefan Gulizia, Mahnaz Jahedi
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Patent number: 9980995Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of reducing total gas production and/or methane production in a ruminant animal.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2015Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignees: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Meat & Livestock Australia Limited, James Cook UniversityInventors: Lorenna Machado, Marie Elisabeth Magnusson, Nigel William Tomkins, Robert Douglas Kinley, Peter Canisius Denys, Nicholas Andrew Paul
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Patent number: 9637527Abstract: A method for reducing or alleviating inflammation in a subject includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of: (a) Ac-TMP-1 or a biologically active fragment or variant of Ac-TMP-1; (b) Ac-TMP-2 or a biologically active fragment or variant of Ac-TMP-2; or (c) a combination of (a) and (b), to thereby reduce or alleviate inflammation in the subject. A method for preventing or treating asthma or inflammatory bowel disease in a subject includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of: (a) Ac-TMP-1 or a biologically active fragment or variant of Ac-TMP-1; (b) Ac-TMP-2 or a biologically active fragment or variant of Ac-TMP-2; or (c) a combination of (a) and (b), to thereby prevent or treat asthma or inflammatory bowel disease in the subject. The subject may be a mammal, inclusive of humans.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: JAMES COOK UNIVERSITYInventors: Alex Loukas, Severine Navarro
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Publication number: 20160229905Abstract: A modified Ac-TMP-2 protein lacks one or a plurality of acidic C-terminal amino acids normally present in a full-length or wild-type Ac-TMP-2 protein and may also lack one or a plurality of N-terminal amino acids while retaining the amino acid sequence C—S—C at or near the N-terminus. The modified Ac-TMP-2 protein may be useful in method and composition for reducing or alleviating inflammation in a subject. Inflammation may be associated with a disease is a disease of the digestive tract such as chronic gastritis or an inflammatory bowel disease such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, or a disease of the respiratory system, such as asthma, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2014Publication date: August 11, 2016Applicant: James Cook UniversityInventors: Alex Loukas, Andrew Leech, Darren Pickering
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Publication number: 20150037366Abstract: A method for reducing or alleviating inflammation in a subject includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of: (a) Ac-TMP-1 or a biologically active fragment or variant of Ac-TMP-1; (b) Ac-TMP-2 or a biologically active fragment or variant of Ac-TMP-2; or (c) a combination of (a) and (b), to thereby reduce or alleviate inflammation in the subject. A method for preventing or treating asthma or inflammatory bowel disease in a subject includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of: (a) Ac-TMP-1 or a biologically active fragment or variant of Ac-TMP-1; (b) Ac-TMP-2 or a biologically active fragment or variant of Ac-TMP-2; or (c) a combination of (a) and (b), to thereby prevent or treat asthma or inflammatory bowel disease in the subject. The subject may be a mammal, inclusive of humans.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: JAMES COOK UNIVERSITYInventors: Alex Loukas, Severine Navarro
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Publication number: 20130172308Abstract: The present invention relates to ruthenium complexes, and in particular di- and multi-nuclear ruthenium complexes which may be used as antimicrobial agents. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such complexes, and methods for their use in treating or preventing microbial infections.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicants: John Grant COLLINS, JAMES COOK UNIVERSITYInventors: Yanyan MULYANA, Marshall Leonard Feterl, Frank Richard Keene, Fangfei Li, John Grant Collins, Jeffrey Mitchell Warner, Kirsten Ruth Maria Heimann
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Patent number: 8293093Abstract: A method of electrowinning or electrorefining copper from a copper electrolyte solution which contains chloride ions, the method comprising the steps of: (a) forming a polyacrylamide solution by dissolving polyacrylamide, having a molecular weight range of 5,000 to 20,000,000 Daltons, in an acidic medium and under conditions to form a polyacrylamide block copolymer having blocks of carboxyl groups dispersed along the polymer backbone; (b) introducing the polyacrylamide solution into an electrolytic cell containing the copper electrolyte solution at a polyacrylamide concentration of 0.01-10 mg/L; and (c) electroplating copper from the copper electrolyte solution to form a copper cathode.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2005Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: James Cook UniversityInventors: Cesimiro Paulino Fabian, Thomas William Lancaster, Natalie Lancaster, legal representative
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Publication number: 20110129935Abstract: The invention relates to methods and compositions for assessing protein stability, including improved assays for distinguishing between soluble and aggregated proteins. The methods and compositions include measuring residual fluorescence of a fusion protein in a soluble fraction as an indicator of protein solubility, and monitoring fluorescence quenching of a fusion protein as an indicator of protein stability. The fusion protein may comprise an amino acid sequence of a protein of interest, a peptide linker amino acid sequence and an amino acid sequence of a fluorescent marker protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2010Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: James Cook UniversityInventor: Patrick Schaeffer
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Publication number: 20110022137Abstract: The present invention is a cooling garment, comprising at least one tubing matrix for location of a coolant; wherein the tubing matrix is in the form of a waffle design.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2008Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: JAMES COOK UNIVERSITYInventors: Robert Ennis-Thomas, William David Armstrong, Glen Deakin
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Publication number: 20040076732Abstract: The invention provides a wax composition which can be used in comestibles. The wax composition is obtained from sugar cane and comrpises wax esters, aldehydes, tri-glycerides, alcohols, free fatty acids, sterols and polar lipids. A process for preparing a wax composition from crude sugar cane wax, the process comprising the steps of: (i) heating a solution of the crude wax with a lower alcohol as sovlent at the boiling point of the solvent; (ii) allowing phase separation of the solution from (i) and decanting the upper phase while hot; (iii) allowing the separated phase from (ii) to cool and separating crystallised wax from the solvent; (iv) repeating steps (i) to (iii) using the wax from (iii) until all pitch has been removed from the wax; (v) heating the wax to between 90 and 140° C. and oxidising molten wax with oxidizing material; and (vi) continuing the heating under and inert gas on completion of the oxidation step until intermediate peroxide products are removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Applicants: JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY, CSR LIMITEDInventor: Marjorie Gan Valix
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Patent number: 6500632Abstract: An assay to screen potential inhibitors of the C4 acid cycle in plants. The assay involves testing inhibition of C4 enzymes by incubating a mixture that includes pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase and malate dehydrogenase and their substrates with a potential inhibitor. Detection of inhibition depends on comparing the resulting levels of NADH or NAD+ in the test mixture to the levels of NADH or NAD+ in a control.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2000Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignees: Australian Institute of Marine Science, James Cook University of North QueenslandInventors: James Nigel Burnell, Lyndon Edwin Llewellyn
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Patent number: 5823800Abstract: An electrical socket is formed in a printed circuit board (PCR) using standard automated PCB production techniques. The socket (20) comprises a respective three legged slotted aperture (22) for each pin (11) of a male plug. The slotted aperture (22) defines two cantilevered portions (23) which receive a respective pin (11) in A slot defined therebetween. The slot is of slightly narrower width than the corresponding pin (11), but the cantilevered portions (23) are resiliently movable to enable the slot to receive and frictionally retain the pin therein. Plated contact surfaces are formed on either side of the slot to make physical and electrical contact with the pin. A modified socket (40) includes an integrally formed isolation switch. The cantilevered portions (41) extend beyond the point where the pin (11) is inserted therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1996Date of Patent: October 20, 1998Assignee: James Cook University of North QueenslandInventors: Harry Suehrcke, Noel Wilhelmus Lovisa
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Patent number: 5032794Abstract: Changes in underwater sediment level in a marine environment are monitored electronically using a probe embedded in the sediment. The probe includes an electrical current source to generate an electric field extending across the sediment interface. Voltage measurements are taken at at least three sensors on the probe whose positions are known relative to the current source. The height of the sediment interface relative to the current source can then be calculated, and logged, and changes in sediment level can be monitored. The conductivities of the sediment and seawater can also be calculated by taking additional voltage measurements.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1990Date of Patent: July 16, 1991Assignees: James Cook University of Northern Queensland, Australian Institute of Marine ScienceInventors: Peter V. Ridd, John L. Nicol, Eric Wolanski