Patents Examined by Jason Deveau Rosen
  • Patent number: 11453889
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods of producing a desired phenotype in a plant by manipulation of gene expression within the plant. The method relates to means which inhibit the level of PK220 gene expression or activity, wherein a desired phenotype such as increased water use efficiency relative to a wild type control plant. The invention also relates to nucleic acid sequences and constructs useful such methods and methods of generating and isolating plants having decreased PK220 expression or activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Performance Plants, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiangxin Wan, Yafan Huang, Shujun Yang, Monika Kuzma
  • Patent number: 11445674
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to wheat plants having grain with high ?-glucan content, methods for constructing said wheat plants, grain therefrom and uses thereof. Wheat lines homozygous for the HvCslF6 gene from barley having five times the fiber content and an increased ?-glucan content of TA5790, TA5792, and TA5795 are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignees: General Mills, Inc., Kansas State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Jesse Poland, Bernd Friebe, Titiana Danilova, Bikram S Gill, Eric Jackson
  • Patent number: 11447788
    Abstract: The inventive technology relates to systems and methods for enhanced in vivo production, accumulation and modification of cannabinoids. In one embodiment, the invention may include systems and methods for enhanced in vivo biosynthesis of chemically-modified water-soluble cannabinoids in a whole plant, or a cell suspension culture system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: TRAIT BIOSCEINCES, INC.
    Inventors: Richard T. Sayre, Elton Carvalho Gonçalves, Tawanda Zidenga
  • Patent number: 11432505
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated PH4D9T and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH4D9T with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH4D9T 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 PH4D9T or a locus conversion of PH4D9T with another maize variety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Inventor: Benoit Revol
  • Patent number: 11432503
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated PH487H and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH487H with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH487H 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 PH487H or a locus conversion of PH487H with another maize variety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Inventor: Elliot Lee Heffner
  • Patent number: 11419302
    Abstract: The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato line FDR9Q14-0279. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line FDR9Q14-0279 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line FDR9Q14-0279 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC
    Inventor: James D. Frantz
  • Patent number: 11419303
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid SVTC0630. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTC0630 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: Johannes Hendrikus Maria Barten
  • Patent number: 11406081
    Abstract: The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato line FIR-A818-0433. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line FIR-A818-0433 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line FIR-A818-0433 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC
    Inventor: Alan Krivanek
  • Patent number: 11399495
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated PH4CTD and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH4CTD with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH4CTD 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 PH4CTD or a locus conversion of PH4CTD with another maize variety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventor: Maryse Lafouasse
  • Patent number: 11395466
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated PH472K and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH472K with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH472K 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 PH472K or a locus conversion of PH472K with another maize variety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Inventor: Marco Zanirato
  • Patent number: 11390877
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses blue-grained genes in wheat and use thereof, and belongs to the fields of plant molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics and plant breeding. The disclosure is capable of, through using differential expression analysis of blue-grained and white-grained wheat, obtaining four genes for controlling wheat blue-grained trait: two MYB family transcription factors and two bHLH family transcription factors, and providing a plant recombinant expression vector of the above genes and a method for controlling plant anthocyanin synthesis, and has important theoretical and practical significance to research a synthetic pathway of blue-grained wheat aleurone layer pigment, serve as a screening marker in a plant transformation process and improve a nutritional value of a plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY, Beijing Next Generation Hybrid Wheat Biotechnology Co., Ltd, PEKING UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
    Inventors: Ligeng Ma, Zheng Wang, Zhuo Chen, Yanfang Heng, Xingwang Deng
  • Patent number: 11390879
    Abstract: The transgenic plants expressing one or more antagonist IL-10R peptides and anti-IL-10 single domain antibodies that stimulate or modulate the immune system and improve gastrointestinal physiology of an animal fed the transgenic plants or tissues thereof and the genes encoding the antagonist IL-10R peptides and anti-IL-10 single domain antibodies are described. The animal feed additives and animal feed incorporating the transgenic plants or tissues thereof are also described. Methods of stimulating or modulating an animal's immune system, improving an animal's gastrointestinal physiology, improving animal performance by using the transgenic plants or tissues thereof, and treating animals infected with a gastrointestinal pathogen are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: AGRIVIDA, INC.
    Inventors: R. Michael Raab, Oleg Bougri, Matthew Parker, Philip A. Lessard
  • Patent number: 11363777
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a rosemary plant and, more specifically, to a proprietary clonal plant line KI1005 that hyper-accumulates carnosic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: KEMIN INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Brindha Narasimhamoorthy, John A. Greaves, Liuqing Zhao, Zhiqiang Qiu, Justin Cox, John Baker
  • Patent number: 11357201
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 94411660 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 94411660, to the plants of soybean cultivar 94411660, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 94411660, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 94411660. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 94411660. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 94411660, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 94411660 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC, Stine Seed Farm, Inc.
    Inventor: William H. Eby
  • Patent number: 11359208
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides shatterproof (SHP) genes and plants and/or plant cells bearing one or more mutations in a shatterproof gene; as well as methods of making and using such plants. In some embodiments the plant or plant cell is resistant to preharvest dehiscence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: CIBUS US LLC
    Inventor: Gregory F. W. Gocal
  • Patent number: 11352634
    Abstract: The inventive technology relates to systems and methods for enhanced in vivo production, accumulation and modification of cannabinoids. In one embodiment, the invention may include systems and methods for enhanced in vivo biosynthesis of chemically-modified water-soluble cannabinoids in a whole plant, or a cell suspension culture system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Trait Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard T. Sayre, Elton Carvalho Gonçalves, Tawanda Zidenga
  • Patent number: 11350592
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011157. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011157, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011157 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011157.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Wade E. Odland, Nathaniel J. Page, Bradley A. Sockness
  • Patent number: 11339400
    Abstract: The inventive technology relates to systems and methods for enhanced in vivo production, accumulation and modification of cannabinoids. In one embodiment, the invention may include systems and methods for enhanced in vivo biosynthesis of chemically-modified water-soluble cannabinoids in a whole plant, or a cell suspension culture system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Trait Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard T. Sayre, Elton Carvalho Gonçalves, Tawanda Zidenga
  • Patent number: 11317586
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011056. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011056, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011056 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011056.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Fufa H. Birru, Christian J. Buffard, Jeffrey M. Sernett
  • Patent number: 11312967
    Abstract: Hybrid cereals are described which are obtained by restoring the pollen fertility for the Pampa cytoplasmic male sterility (P-CMS) and which are characterized by a reduced linkage drag. Plants are provided, in particular rye, which, as the male pollen parent, are capable of restoring the pollen fertility for the P-CMS. Furthermore, the nucleic acid molecule which carries the necessary information for restoring the P-CMS, DNA and vectors which contain such a nucleic acid molecule, corresponding host cells as well as a protein which can be encoded by the nucleic acid molecule and antibodies directed against it are also described. Furthermore, methods for the production of corresponding hybrid plants and transgenic plants are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: KWS SAAT SE & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Peer Wilde, Viktor Korzun, Jutta Menzel, Ruonan Zhou, Nils Stein, Bernd Hackauf