Patents Examined by Jason Deveau Rosen
  • Patent number: 11304397
    Abstract: A novel hybrid tomato plant, designated HMC44131 is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of hybrid tomato designated HMC44131, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid tomato designated HMC44131, and to methods for producing a tomato plant by crossing the hybrid tomato HMC44131 with itself or another tomato plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: HM.Clause, S.A.S.
    Inventor: Jocepascual Martinez
  • Patent number: 11304432
    Abstract: Provided are food and drink ingredients produced from wheat grain which has a low level (2-30%) of total starch branching enzyme II activity and an amylose content in the starch of at least 50% (w/w), and processes for producing and using the ingredients. Also provided are foods produced from the ingredients which may be used in humans to improve one or more parameters of metabolic health, bowel health or cardiovascular health.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: ARISTA CEREAL TECHNOLOGIES PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ahmed Regina, Matthew Kennedy Morell, Pierre Georges Louis Berbezy, Elisabeth Marie-Anne Ida Chanliaud, Bernard Duperrier
  • Patent number: 11306335
    Abstract: Nucleic acid molecules encoding polypeptides having polyketide synthase activity have been identified and characterized. Expression or over-expression of the nucleic acids alters levels of cannabinoid compounds in organisms. The polypeptides may be used in vivo or in vitro to produce cannabinoid compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA, UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Page, Steve Gagne
  • Patent number: 11306321
    Abstract: The present invention provides nucleic acids encoding transcription factors and methods of using these nucleic acids to modulate nicotine production in plants and to produce plants having modulated nicotine production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Rongda Qu, Bingwu Wang
  • Patent number: 11284587
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01077381. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01077381. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01077381 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01077381 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Catherine N. Nyinyi Hatcher
  • Patent number: 11277994
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 93421515 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 93421515, to the plants of soybean cultivar 93421515, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 93421515, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 93421515. 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 93421515. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 93421515, 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 93421515 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: M.S. TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason
  • Patent number: 11277993
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011121. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011121, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011121 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 CH011121.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Gregory J. Holland, Jeffrey M. Sernett, Gary R. Stangland
  • Patent number: 11279920
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having glucoamylase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Ming Li, Junxin Duan, Zheng Liu, Shiro Fukuyama, Keiichi Ayabe, Guillermo Coward-Kelly, Randall Deinhammer
  • Patent number: 11279945
    Abstract: Isolated cDNA sequences encoding for highly conserved domains of plant viral pathogen genomes. The cDNA sequences are selected from the group consisting of those listed in Table I (SEQ ID NOs: 1-68). cDNA fusion constructs or chimeric transgene constructs comprising at least two different cDNA sequences selected from the list in Table I, and more specifically cDNA corresponding to at least two different viruses is described, along with methods of creating transgenic plants with broad-spectrum, durable resistance to multiple viral pathogens using these cDNA sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignees: Kansas State University Research Foundation, Heartland Plant Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Dorith Rotenberg, Anna E. Whitfield, William W. Bockus, Forrest G. Chumley, Rodolfo Acosta-Leal
  • Patent number: 11266116
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid SVTD0140 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTD0140 and the parent lines thereof, 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: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: James D. Frantz
  • Patent number: 11266171
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing a food ingredient or beverage ingredient. The present invention also provides a process for producing food product or beverage product. The present invention also provides a process for providing starch, amylose, amylopectin, ?-glucan, fructan, non-starch polysaccharide, dietary fibre or resistant starch to improve one or more indicators of health in a mammal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: THE HEALTHY GRAIN PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhongyi Li, Matthew Kennedy Morell, Stephen Alan Jobling
  • Patent number: 11266117
    Abstract: The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato line FIR-A806043. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line FIR-A806043 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-A806043 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Krivanek
  • Patent number: 11259474
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid SVTM1082 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTM1082 and the parent lines thereof, 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: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Seminis Vegatable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: Chad Kramer
  • Patent number: 11252882
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011147. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011147, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011147 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 CH011147.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Marvin L. Boerboom, Jose Jaime Elizarraras, Bradley A. Sockness
  • Patent number: 11252901
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011059. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011059, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011059 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 CH011059.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Nathaniel J. Page
  • Patent number: 11236348
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses polynucleotide sequences that can be used to regulate gene expression in plants. Terminator sequences from Sorghum bicolor and Oryza sativa that are functional in plants are disclosed. Nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression constructs, plants and seed comprising these terminator sequences are further disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Inventors: Shane E. Abbitt, Karri Klein, David Selinger
  • Patent number: 11224237
    Abstract: Pennycress seed, seed lots, and seed meal having reduced fiber content and improved suitability for use in producing animal feed are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignees: Covercress Inc., Board of Trustees of Illinois State University, Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Tim Ulmasov, Cristine Handel, Gary Hartnell, John C. Sedbrook, Michael David Marks, Ratan Chopra, Maliheh Esfahanian
  • Patent number: 11224193
    Abstract: The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato line PSQ-9Z15-1572V. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line PSQ-9Z15-1572V 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 PSQ-9Z15-1572V comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: Chad Kramer
  • Patent number: 11224189
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a Solanum lycopersicum seed designated 72-014 RZ. The present invention also relates to a Solanum lycopersicum plant produced by growing the 72-014 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the tomato cultivar, represented by tomato variety 72-014 RZ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V.
    Inventor: Johan Cornelis Solleveld
  • Patent number: 11224191
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a Solanum lycopersicum seed designated 72-763 RZ. The present invention also relates to a Solanum lycopersicum plant produced by growing the 72-763 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the tomato cultivar, represented by tomato variety 72-763 RZ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V.
    Inventor: Petrus Jacobus Walterus Kok