Patents Assigned to The Scotts Company
  • Patent number: 8673330
    Abstract: Insecticidal compositions suitable for use in preparation of insecticidal granular fertilizer and insecticidal formulations comprising a pyrethroid and a glycol present in a concentration of from 40.0% by weight to 99.0% by weight based upon the total weight of all components in the composition is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignees: FMC Corporation, The Scotts Company LLC
    Inventors: Edward Kikta, Larry G. Faehl, Kim Watson, David R. Kilanowski, Robert Radabaugh, Coby L. Crane
  • Patent number: 8332296
    Abstract: Determining election reauthorization is disclosed, including using a system to: receive one or more inputs of values, determine an available cash flow based at least in part on the inputted values; determine whether a reauthorization of bonds is required based at least in part on the determined available cash flow; and determine that an aggregate of an amount of bonds issued so far and an amount of bonds to reauthorize does not exceed a limit associated with a bonding capacity associated with a state statute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Dale Scott & Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale Scott, Robert Leonard
  • Publication number: 20120277103
    Abstract: Insecticidal compositions suitable for use in preparation of insecticidal granular fertilizer and insecticidal formulations comprising a pyrethroid and a glycol present in a concentration of from 40.0% by weight to 99.0% by weight based upon the total weight of all components in the composition is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicants: THE SCOTTS COMPANY LLC, FMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edward Kikta, Larry G. Faehl, Kim Watson, David R. Kilanowski, Robert Radabaugh, Coby L. Crane
  • Patent number: 8247446
    Abstract: Insecticidal compositions suitable for use in preparation of insecticidal granular fertilizer and insecticidal formulations comprising a pyrethroid and a glycol present in a concentration of from 40.0% by weight to 99.0% by weight based upon the total weight of all components in the composition is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignees: FMC Corporation, The Scotts Company LLC
    Inventors: Edward Kikta, Larry G. Faehl, Kim Watson, David R. Kilanowski, Robert Radabaugh, Coby L. Crane
  • Patent number: 7569747
    Abstract: The present invention provides a bentgrass ASR-368 plant and seed. Also provided are assays for detecting the presence of the bentgrass ASR-368 based on a DNA sequence and the use of this DNA sequence as a molecular marker in a DNA detection method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignees: Monsanto Technology LLC, The Scotts Company
    Inventors: Shirley Xiaoli Guo, Robert W. Harriman, Lisa Lee, Eric K. Nelson
  • Publication number: 20080275115
    Abstract: Insecticidal compositions suitable for use in preparation of insecticidal granular fertilizer and insecticidal formulations comprising a pyrethroid and a glycol present in a concentration of from 40.0% by weight to 99.0% by weight based upon the total weight of all components in the composition is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2005
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Applicants: FMC CORPORATION, THE SCOTTS COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Edward Kikta, Larry G. Faehl, Kim Watson, David R. Kilanowski, Robert Radabaugh, Coby L. Crane
  • Publication number: 20070067876
    Abstract: Since its introduction into North America over 170 years ago, the poinsettia has become a major ornamental potted plant, and is an important component of the U.S. floral industry. Susceptibility to insect pests and diseases caused by pathogens remains a problem for poinsettia production, even under greenhouse conditions. While chemical treatment can control certain insect pests and disease pathogens, such treatment can also have an adverse effect upon poinsettias. The methods described herein provide a means to genetically engineer transgenic poinsettia that express macromolecules capable of protecting the plant against the insects and pathogens. The production of transgenic plants can also be used to enhance the commercial value of poinsettia by controlling characteristics such as flower color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Applicant: THE SCOTTS COMPANY
    Inventors: Franzine Smith, Tau-San Chou, Robert Eisenreich, John Sanford, Alan Blowers, Joyce Van Eck
  • Publication number: 20070006351
    Abstract: Method of initiating, proliferating, and regenerating embryogenic callus from immature inflorescence explants of St. Augustinegrass, and method of transforming and regenerating the embryogenic callus to produce transgenic St. Augustinegrass. The invention also encompasses St. Augustinegrass callus and adult plants produced by the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: The Scotts Company
    Inventors: Rebecca Torisky, Della Cobb, Lisa Lee, Joyce Van Eck
  • Patent number: 6994899
    Abstract: A curl resistant single substrate label sheet, and in-line high speed method for making same, for use with conventional printers, including at least one body portion, at least one label portion, and at least one release liner portion, all of which are made of a common substrate permitting the use of the label sheet with conventional printers including off the shelf laser printers, including duplex printers. The label portion may include multiple individual labels that may extend all the way to the edges of the label sheet. The label sheet may contain printed indicia on all portions of the label sheet and permit the end user to print on all exposed surfaces. The label sheet may include at least one score across the grain of the substrate to increase the rigidity of the label and further prevent curling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: The Cyril-Scott Company
    Inventors: Leslie E. McClelland, Chad Stephenson
  • Patent number: 6679493
    Abstract: A fold-through puzzle designed to interact and engage the interest of a puzzle solver for amusement and as a vehicle to present advertising to the viewer. The puzzle utilizes at east one planar member and a plurality of fold lines and may be repeatedly folded to create the illusion that several pieces of paper are being endlessly passed through themselves. In one embodiment, a plurality of planar members are attached to one another such that the members may pivot about each other on fold lines. In an alternative embodiment, the fold-through puzzle is configured with a single planar member and a plurality of incisions through the planar member, such that the puzzle maybe folded along fold lines, creating pivot areas and corner area, that when folded, produce the illusion that a single piece of paper is being endlessly passed through itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Cyril-Scott Company
    Inventor: Chad Stephenson
  • Patent number: 5337942
    Abstract: A three-panel, one-gusset film processing envelope is manufactured in line from continuous web stock. The front and rear main panels are created from what was the central and one lateral marginal portion of the web, and the pocket-dividing interior panel from what was the other lateral marginal portion of the web. A tear-off claim check initially faces a double thickness nonfolded fold-over flap for closing the pockets. A transverse band of resealable adhesive is exposed through a die-cut window in the flap. Entrance to the adjunct pocket for receiving negatives on the trip back from the processor is passively facilitated by the consumer in the act of folding over the flap for the trip to the processor. The envelope bottom is closed by a transverse glue strip which, by involving all three panels, provides a relatively stiff bottom marginal portion which preferably bears the machine readable unique number for the transaction, thereby facilitating presentation of the envelope for reading by a reading device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1994
    Assignee: Cyril-Scott Company
    Inventor: E. Leslie McClelland
  • Patent number: 5041072
    Abstract: In making the product, the manufacturer coats a longitudinal band of a web with a release coating. A longitudinal pressure-sensitive adhesive strip is applied in a longitudinal band on the web. Transverse glue lines are provided and the web is longitudinally folded, bringing two portions of the web into face-to-face contact. As a result, the transverse glue lines define individual envelope pockets and the release-coated surface on the first web portion becomes applied to the longitudinal adhesive strip on the second web portion. At the same time, the release-coated band of the first web portion is longitudinally severed from the remainder of the first web portion, thereby creating a separate peel-off strip removably covering the band of pressure-sensitive adhesive. The peel-off strip is manufactured while the envelope is being manufactured, and out of the same paper or paper-like material. The manufacturer can print, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1991
    Assignee: Cyril-Scott Company
    Inventor: E. Leslie McClelland
  • Patent number: 4070920
    Abstract: A composite gear made up of a carburized gear ring and separately formed hub and a method of making same wherein distortions in the gear teeth and ring caused by the carburizing process are removed by a special design of hub and welding selected portions of the hub to the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1978
    Assignee: The Horsburgh and Scott Company
    Inventor: Wayne J. LeBlanc