Patents Examined by Russell Kallis
  • Patent number: 12144301
    Abstract: Novel Stevia rebaudiana plant cultivars, a process for preparing superior compositions comprising steviol glycosides, and the advantageous use of the compositions comprising steviol glycosides in consumables, including food and beverage products, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: PureCircle USA Inc.
    Inventors: Avetik Markosyan, Seong Siang Ong, Runchun Jing, Yucheng Bu, Jianning Chen, Yeen Yee Wong, Juan Zhu, Chunhui Wang, Xiufang Deng
  • Patent number: 12146147
    Abstract: The methods disclosed herein provide for clonal plant production using a morphogenic gene to produce non-transgenic and transgenic plants wherein the morphogenic gene does not integrate into the genome of the plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: William James Gordon-Kamm, Keith S Lowe, Jon Aaron Tucker Reinders, Huaxun Ye
  • Patent number: 12139718
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for modulating the alkaloid content of a plant (e.g. a tobacco plant), the method comprising modifying said plant by modulating the activity or expression of at least one Nic1 ERF gene. The present invention also provides for the use of at least one Nic1 ERF gene for modulating the alkaloid content of a plant, as well as tobacco cells, plants, plant propagation materials, harvested leaves, processed tobaccos, or tobacco products obtainable in accordance with the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    Inventors: Matthew Edward Humphry, Shengming Yang, Qiulin Qin
  • Patent number: 12121000
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 13330102 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 13330102, to the plants of soybean cultivar 13330102, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 13330102, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 13330102. 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 13330102. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 13330102, 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 13330102 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: M.S. Technologies, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason
  • Patent number: 12121001
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 14310432 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 14310432, to the plants of soybean cultivar 14310432, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 14310432, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 14310432. 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 14310432. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 14310432, 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 14310432 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: M.S. Technologies, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason
  • Patent number: 12114637
    Abstract: The present invention is directed in part to soybean variety CW1660196, EE1803165, EE1762224, EE1762072, and/or EE1861244 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to soybean variety EE1803165, EE1762224, EE1762072, and/or EE1861244 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using EE1803165, EE1762224, EE1762072, and/or EE1861244, e.g., in a breeding program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection
    Inventor: David Scott Lee
  • Patent number: 12116584
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are described for producing a phytase in transgenic maize plants and then incorporating parts of the transgenic maize plants in animal feed. The feed phytase enzyme displays activity across a broad pH range, and tolerance to temperatures that are often encountered during the process of preparing animal feeds. Methods of producing an animal feed that incorporate the transgenic maize plants, parts thereof or plant derived phytases, as well as methods of promoting the release of inorganic phosphate from a phytic acid in an animal, producing an animal meat, or reducing the ratio of intake of an animal feed per weight of the animal meat by feeding an animal with the animal feed incorporating transgenic maize plants are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: AGRIVIDA, INC.
    Inventors: R. Michael Raab, Oleg Bougri, Philip A. Lessard, Christopher Bonin, Michael B. Lanahan
  • Patent number: 12108719
    Abstract: Provided are methods for increasing the efficiency of creating doubled haploid plants by increasing the number of chances of forming a double haploid seed through treatment of a monocot plant with a plant growth regulator. In certain embodiments, maize plants are produced that comprise multiple co-dominant ears. Also provided are plants comprising the potential to generate increased numbers of doubled haploid offspring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Fenggao Dong, Michael Graham, Huachun Larue, Daniel Ovadya
  • Patent number: 12108722
    Abstract: The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated 01095205. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar 01095205. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar 01095205 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar 01095205 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Moore
  • Patent number: 12102048
    Abstract: The present invention relates to non-transgenic and transgenic plants, preferably crop plants, having biological activity of a haploid inducer and comprising a polynucleotide which comprises a nucleotide sequence encoding a centromer histone H3 (CENH3) protein, wherein the polynucleotide comprises at least one mutation causing an alteration of the amino acid sequence of the CENH3 protein, and to a part of the part. Further, the invention provides methods of generating the inducer plants, methods of generating haploid and double haploid plants using the inducer plants as well as methods of facilitating cytoplasm exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: KWS SAAT SE & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Christof Bolduan, Frank Breuer, Monika Kloiber-Maitz, Markus Niessen, Milena Ouzunova, Britta Schulz, Silke Wieckhorst
  • Patent number: 12084670
    Abstract: MPO1 and MPO2 can be regulated for either decreasing or increasing alkaloid levels in plants, in particular in Nicotiana plants. In particular, suppressing or overexpressing one or more of MPO1 and MPO2 may be used to decrease or increase nicotine and nicotinic alkaloid levels in tobacco plants. Suppression or overexpression of one or more of MPO1 and MPO2 may be used in combination with modification of expression of other genes encoding enzymes on the nicotinic alkaloid biosynthetic pathway such as A622, NBB1, PMT, and QPT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: 22nd Century Limited, LLC
    Inventors: Takashi Hashimoto, Akira Kato
  • Patent number: 12077765
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides approaches for reducing nicotine. Also provided are tobacco plants with decreased tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs). The present disclosure further provides modified tobacco plants with low nicotine and increased antioxidant capacity. Further provided are tobacco plants or material with low nicotine and low TSNAs. Also provided is cured tobacco material of the tobacco plants provided herein and tobacco products comprising this cured tobacco material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Chengalrayan Kudithipudi, Dongmei Xu, James A. Strickland, Marcos Fernando de Godoy Lusso
  • Patent number: 12075746
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides tobacco Nic1b locus and associated genes. Also provided are tobacco plants with altered total alkaloid and nicotine levels and commercially acceptable leaf grade, their development via breeding or transgenic approaches, and production of tobacco products from these tobacco plants. Further provided are compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants having novel mutations or alleles to reduce nicotine levels. Further provided are sequence polymorphisms and molecular markers for breeding tobacco with reduced nicotine or alkaloids while maintaining tobacco leaf grade and tobacco product quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Sreepriya Pramod, Marcos Fernando de Godoy Lusso, Jesse Frederick, Andrew Carl Adams, Dongmei Xu
  • Patent number: 12077764
    Abstract: Materials and methods for inducing genetic alterations in meristematic plant tissue are provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Daniel F. Voytas, Ryan A. Nasti, Michael F. Maher
  • Patent number: 12058968
    Abstract: Nucleic acid and polypeptide sequences for predicting and controlling shell phenotype in palm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Malaysian Palm Oil Board
    Inventors: Rajinder Singh, Leslie Low Eng Ti, Leslie Ooi Cheng Li, Meilina Ong Abdullah, Rajanaidu Nookiah, Ravigadevi Sambanthamurthi, Andrew Van Brunt, Muhammad A. Budiman, Steven W. Smith, Nathan D. Lakey, Rob Martienssen, Jared Ordway
  • Patent number: 12052958
    Abstract: A novel sorghum variety designated XS7614 and seed, plants, plant parts and plant cells thereof are produced from a cross of inbred sorghum varieties. Methods for producing a sorghum plant comprise crossing hybrid sorghum variety XS7614 with another sorghum plant. Sorghum variety XS7614, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of sorghum variety XS7614 are provided. Methods for producing a sorghum plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into sorghum variety XS7614 include one or both of backcross conversion and transformation of one or both inbred parents. The sorghum seed, plants and plant parts produced thereby are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Cleve Douglas Franks, Justin M Gifford
  • Patent number: 12035714
    Abstract: Compositions having pesticidal activity and methods for their use are provided. Compositions include isolated and recombinant polypeptides having pesticidal activity, recombinant and synthetic nucleic acid molecules encoding the polypeptides, DNA constructs and vectors comprising the nucleic acid molecules, host cells comprising the vectors, and antibodies to the polypeptides. Nucleotide sequences encoding the polypeptides can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in organisms of interest. The compositions and methods provided are useful for producing organisms with enhanced pest resistance or tolerance. Transgenic plants and seeds comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes a pesticidal protein of the invention are also provided. Such plants are resistant to insects and other pests. Methods are provided for producing the various polypeptides disclosed herein, and for using those polypeptides for controlling or killing a pest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: AgBiome, Inc.
    Inventors: Jessica Parks, Kira Bulazel Roberts, Rebecca E. Thayer
  • Patent number: 12024712
    Abstract: Provided herein is the identification and markers and genes associated with day-neutral autoflowering in plants and their use in selecting plants, including Cannabis plants, having autoflowering activity. The markers are useful for breeding autoflowering plants by obtaining nucleic acids, detecting one or more markers that indicate autoflowering activity, and establishing plant lines having such characteristics. Also provided are methods of editing plants to establish plant lines having autoflowering allelic variations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Phylos Bioscience, Inc.
    Inventors: Erica Bakker, Alisha Holloway, Kristen Waterman
  • Patent number: 12018265
    Abstract: The gene encoding N-methylputrescine oxidase (MPO) and constructs comprising such DNA are provided, including methods of regulating MPO expression independently or with other alkaloid biosynthesis genes to modulate alkaloid production in plants and host cells. MPO genes or fragments thereof are useful for reducing pyrrolidine or tropane alkaloid production in plants, for increasing pyrrolidine or tropane alkaloid production in plants, and for producing an MPO enzyme in host cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: 22nd Century Limited, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E Page, Enwu Liu
  • Patent number: 12018266
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and products for enhancing the rate of photosynthesis in a plant. In addition, certain embodiments relate to transgenic plants and progeny thereof which comprise an exogenous Rieske Iron Sulphur protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX ENTERPRISES LIMITED
    Inventor: Christine Raines