Patents Examined by Ashwin Mehta
  • Patent number: 7321083
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH3AV, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH3AV, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH3AV with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH3AV with another maize line or plant and to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH3AV, to methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH3AV and to the inbred maize lines derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Hartwig Josef Bernhard Wehrmann
  • Patent number: 7319182
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated LH360. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety LH360, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety LH360 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety LH360 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety LH360.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Donald G. Eggerling
  • Patent number: 7317145
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH3PV, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH3PV, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH3PV with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH3PV with another maize line or plant and to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH3PV, to methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH3PV and to the inbred maize lines derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Roy Luedtke, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7317143
    Abstract: A soybean variety designated 91B42, the plants and seeds of soybean variety 91B42, methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing the variety 91B42 with itself or with another soybean plant, and hybrid soybean seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 91B42 with another soybean variety or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety 91B42. This invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean varieties or breeding varieties derived from soybean variety 91B42 and to soybean varieties or breeding varieties produced by those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: David John Gebhardt, Michael Thomas Roach, John Franklin Soper
  • Patent number: 7314987
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH6KW, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH6KW, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH6KW with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH6KW with another maize line or plant and to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH6KW, to methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH6KW and to the inbred maize lines derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman E. Williams, David Lee Benson
  • Patent number: 7314988
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH876, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH876, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH876 with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH876 with another maize line or plant and to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH876, to methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH876 and to the inbred maize lines derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Thomas Cunnyngham
  • Patent number: 7312384
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH6JM, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH6JM, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH6JM with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH6JM with another maize line or plant and to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH6JM, to methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH6JM and to the inbred maize lines derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Candice A. C. Gardner, Gary Edward Henke
  • Patent number: 7306946
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a fungal pathogen, are provided. Compositions include novel amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for antipathogenic polypeptides that were isolated from microbial fermentation broths. Nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences that encode the antipathogenic polypeptides of the invention are also provided. A method for inducing pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the invention. Compositions comprising an antipathogenic polypeptide or a transformed microorganism comprising a nucleic acid of the invention in combination with a carrier and methods of using these compositions to protect a plant from a pathogen are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignees: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., E.I. duPunt de Nemours and Company, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Daniel J. Altier, Glen Dahlbacka, Natalia Ellanskaya, legal representative, Rafael Herrmann, Jennie Hunter-Cevera, Billy F. McCutchen, James K. Presnail, Janet A. Rice, Eric Schepers, Carl R. Simmons, Tamas Torok, Nasser Yalpani, Irina Ellanskaya, deceased
  • Patent number: 7303918
    Abstract: The present invention provides genetic identification and use information about a family of genes, the FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) genes, that is part of the regulate the timing of the onset of flowering in plants. This information enables creation of transgenic plants in which the timing of the flowering of the plants has been selectively altered. Since these genes natively act to delay the time of flowering in plants, enhancing activity of the FLC protein delays the timing of flowering initiation while inhibiting the activity of FLC advances the timing of the start of flowering. A representative number of samples of the gene family are described. Members of the gene family are demonstrated to work in other plant species as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Richard Mark Amasino, Fritz Michael Schomburg, Scott Daniel Michaels, Si-Bum Sung, Katia Scortecci
  • Patent number: 7304211
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB35K05. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB35K05, to the plants of soybean XB35K05 to plant parts of soybean variety XB35K05 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB35K05 with another soybean plant, using XB35K05 as either the male or the female parent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Charles Corbin
  • Patent number: 7304212
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB21S05. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB21S05, to the plants of soybean XB21S05 to plant parts of soybean variety XB21S05 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB21S05 with another soybean plant, using XB21S05 as either the male or the female parent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Arthur Fabrizius, Michael Thomas Roach
  • Patent number: 7304221
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH5TG, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH5TG, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH5TG with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH5TG with another maize line or plant and to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH5TG, to methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH5TG and to the inbred maize lines derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Vladimir Puskaric
  • Patent number: 7303917
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a method for the expression of a gene of interest, or a chimeric or modified gene allowing the localization of a protein, protein fusion, peptide or fragment of interest within the extracellular domain of a floral cell. This method comprises preparing a construct comprising a promoter sequence capable of expressing a gene encoding the protein, protein fusion, peptide, or fragment of interest, within the floral cell; a translated sequence of the protein, protein fusion, peptide, or fragment of interest, which is localized within the extracellular domain of a floral cell; a gene that encodes the protein, protein fusion, peptide, or fragment of interest; and a terminator sequence, and transforming a plant. Plants transformed with such a construct are characterized as having a protein, fragment thereof, or peptide of interest on the surface of a floral cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada as Represented by the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Eastern Cereal & Oilseed, Research Center
    Inventors: Laurian S. Robert, Stephen Gleddie, Elizabeth Foster
  • Patent number: 7303909
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a binary vector which is distinguished by the combination of a variety of elements, demonstrates particularly high compatibility from the cloning aspect and which, besides the T-DNA flanked by the right and left border, contains an additional sequence which makes possible highly efficient and correct transfer of the T-DNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ute Heim, Karin Herbers, Irene Kunze
  • Patent number: 7301079
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH6MN, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH6MN, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH6MN with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH6MN with another maize line or plant and to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH6MN, to methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH6MN and to the inbred maize lines derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: David L. Benson
  • Patent number: 7301080
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH8DB, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH8DB, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH8DB with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH8DB with another maize line or plant and to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH8DB, to methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH8DB and to the inbred maize lines derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bread International, Inc.
    Inventors: William Andrew Wilson, Loren John Hoffbeck
  • Patent number: 7294773
    Abstract: Broadly this invention provides an inbred corn line G4901. The methods for producing a corn plant by crossing the inbred line G4901 are also encompassed by the invention. Additionally, the invention relates to the various parts of inbred G4901 including culturable cells. This invention relates to hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line G4901 with at least one other corn line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Syngenta (AT) Limited
    Inventor: Kris Nyhus
  • Patent number: 7294711
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotide molecules for regulating gene expression in plants. In particular, the present invention relates to promoters isolated from Brassica napus that are useful for regulating gene expression of heterologous polynucleotide molecules in plants. The present invention also relates to expression constructs and transgenic plants containing the heterologous polynucleotide molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Diane M. Ruezinsky, Crystal L. Hewitt, Wei Zheng
  • Patent number: 7291773
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH3PG, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH3PG, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH3PG with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH3PG with another maize line or plant and to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH3PG, to methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH3PG and to the inbred maize lines derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy Luedtke, Jr., Douglas Paul Sprehe
  • Patent number: 7288700
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH76T, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH76T, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH76T with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH76T with another maize line or plant and to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH76T, to methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH76T and to the inbred maize lines derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bread International, Inc.
    Inventor: Gerhard Peter Weber