Patents Examined by David H Kruse
  • Patent number: 12385057
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating low light and/or shade tolerance, and red light specific responses in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding low light and/or SD+EODFR-tolerance polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased low light and/or SD+EODFR tolerance. In addition, methods and materials involved in increasing UV-B tolerance in plants and methods and materials involved in modulating biomass levels in plants are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Shing Kwok, Kenneth Bounds, Ryan Miller, Sam Harris, James Burns, Roger I. Pennell, Vijay Sharma, Michael F. Portereiko, Han-Suk Kim, Gerard Magpantay
  • Patent number: 12376542
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated X75V482 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X75V482 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X75V482 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X75V482, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X75V482 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X75V482 and methods of using maize variety X75V482 are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Travis Korry Coleman, Leonardus Johannes Maria Hendrickx
  • Patent number: 12376554
    Abstract: A novel hybrid tomato plant, designated RED CORAL is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of hybrid tomato designated RED CORAL, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid tomato designated RED CORAL, and to methods for producing a tomato plant by crossing the hybrid tomato RED CORAL with itself or another tomato plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: HM.CLAUSE, INC.
    Inventors: Marcio Pais de Arruda, Michael Kuehn
  • Patent number: 12364236
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV558775. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV558775, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV558775 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 CV558775 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 CV558775.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Khusi R. Tiwari
  • Patent number: 12364242
    Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated 5PZKF34 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PZKF34, cells from soybean variety 5PZKF34, plants of soybean 5PZKF34, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PZKF34. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PZKF34 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PZKF34, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PZKF34, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PZKF34. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PZKF34 are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Landon Linn Ries
  • Patent number: 12365913
    Abstract: The present invention relates to downy mildew, and especially downy mildew caused by the plant pathogen Peronospora farinosa, resistant spinach plants (Spinacia oleracea). The present spinach plants include a downy mildew resistance providing genomic fragment from Spinacia tetrandra. Specifically, the present invention relates to spinach plants being resistant to downy mildew, wherein the spinach plant includes a downy mildew resistance providing genomic fragment from Spinacia tetrandra such as spinach plants including in their genomes one or more nucleic acid sequences selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID No. 1, SEQ ID No. 3, SEQ ID No. 5, SEQ ID No. 7, SEQ ID No. 9, SEQ ID No. 11, SEQ ID No. 13, SEQ ID No. 15, SEQ ID No. 17, SEQ ID No. 19, SEQ ID No. 21, SEQ ID No. 23, SEQ ID No. 25, SEQ ID No. 27, SEQ ID No. 29, SEQ ID No. 31, SEQ ID No. 33 and SEQ ID No. 35.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Bejo Zaden B.V.
    Inventors: Raimon Jozef Laan, Jordi Cornelis Boshoven, Stefanus Johannes Kaandorp, Roelof Marinus Veenstra, Albertus Johannes Maria Schrijver
  • Patent number: 12364238
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV932668. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV932668, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV932668 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 CV932668 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 CV932668.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Judd J. Maxwell, Nicholas P. Ochs
  • Patent number: 12356913
    Abstract: A novel Mandevilla genus plant is provided that has a novel color tone unable to be previously produced. A candidate Mandevilla genus plant is selected as a parent Mandevilla genus plant in the case carotenoid pigment is extracted from the petals thereof, and neoxanthin or a derivative thereof is present in the carotenoid pigment extract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignees: SUNTORY FLOWERS LIMITED, SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Tomoya Misato, Takehiro Watanabe, Toshiaki Azuma, Manabu Horikawa
  • Patent number: 12356940
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated 1PKWM98 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 1PKWM98 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 1PKWM98 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety 1PKWM98 or a locus conversion of 1PKWM98 with another maize variety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Mario Rosario Carlone, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12356910
    Abstract: The disclosure provides methods of making gene-edited plants that are resistant to downy mildew, such as plants with reduced expression of homoserine kinase (HSK), 2-oxoglutarate-Fe(II) oxygenase (2OGO), or both. The disclosure further provides methods of making gene-edited modified plants that are cold tolerant, such as plants with reduced expression of MYB14. In some examples, CRISPR/Cas methods are used, wherein the plants include a mutated HSK, 2OGO, and/or MYB14 gene resulting in reduced expression and/or gene activity. Plants generated using the methods are provided. Such plants can include other desirable traits. HSK, 2OGO, and/or MYB14 nucleic acid and protein molecules are provided, as are gRNAs specific for HSK, 2OGO, or MYB14 and vectors containing such.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Inventors: Rong Di, Michael A. Lawton, James E. Simon
  • Patent number: 12342785
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 4639106 is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds of soybean 4639106, the plants of soybean 4639106, to plant parts of soybean 4639106, and methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean 4639106 with itself or with another soybean variety. Embodiments include methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to soybean cultivars, breeding cultivars, plant parts, and cells derived from soybean 4639106, methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean 4639106, and the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments further include hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing 4639106 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Benson Hill Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: Pedro Gonzalez-Portilla
  • Patent number: 12324397
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01094715. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01094715. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01094715 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01094715 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Hall, Craig K. Moots, David L. Price
  • Patent number: 12324390
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV902292. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV902292, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV902292 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 CV902292 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 CV902292.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Michael J. Kovach
  • Patent number: 12317798
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high rebaudioside M content non-genetically modified stevia plant comprising rebaudioside M at higher content as compared with the wild type stevia species. The present invention also provides a method of producing such a high rebaudioside M content non-genetically modified stevia plant, and a dry leaf obtainable from such a plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazunari Iwaki, Katsuro Miyagawa, Tadayoshi Hirai, Naoko Okitsu, Saori Takeyama
  • Patent number: 12319717
    Abstract: The disclosure provides mutant Brassica plants that have increased locules and seed production relative to native wild-type plants. Such plants include a point mutation in the clavata 1 gene (CLV1), such as a G?A substitution at position 1745 of the Brassica rapa coding sequence, which leads to an S582N substitution in the protein sequence. Equivalent substitutions can be made in any Brassicaceae coding/protein sequence. Also provided are methods of using such plants in breeding programs, as well as parts of such plants (such as seeds), and methods of making commodity products from such plants (e.g., oil). Also provided are mutant CLV1 sequences. Brassica plants harboring the disclosed CLV1 mutation can include other desirable traits, such as herbicide tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona
    Inventor: Rebecca Mosher
  • Patent number: 12317795
    Abstract: The invention provides low erucic, clubroot resistant Brassica plants, plant material and seeds, characterized in that these products harbor a specific CrS clubroot resistance locus in their genome. Tools are also provided which allow detection of the CrS clubroot resistance locus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: BASF Agricultural Solutions US LLC
    Inventors: Thi Ninh Thuan Nguyen, Godfrey Chongo, Jasper Devlamynck, Geoffrey Wagner
  • Patent number: 12317801
    Abstract: A wheat variety designated 6PWEF05B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PWEF05B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PWEF05B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PWEF05B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PWEF05B are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PWEF05B and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: William Joseph Laskar, Cristiano Lemes Da Silva, Kyle Jay Lively, Gregory Charles Marshall
  • Patent number: 12317852
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01098165. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01098165. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01098165 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01098165 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Christiana E. Wiebbecke
  • Patent number: 12295343
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01098326. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01098326. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01098326 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01098326 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventor: Christiana E. Wiebbecke
  • Patent number: 12295338
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01094762. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01094762. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01094762 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01094762 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: David R. Wooten, Jr.