Patents Examined by Russell Kallis
  • Patent number: 11970702
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to methods and materials involved in producing tobacco plants having reduced levels of conversion of nicotine to nornicotine. In certain embodiments, the invention is directed to mutations in a nicotine demethylase gene, tobacco plants comprising mutations in a nicotine demethylase gene, and tobacco compositions and products thereof. In other embodiments, the invention is directed toward nicotine demethylase RNA interference, tobacco plants comprising a nicotine demethylase RNA interference transgene, and tobacco compositions and products thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: Dongmei Xu, Mark T. Nielsen, Yanxin Shen
  • Patent number: 11963509
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01091775. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01091775. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01091775 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01091775 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Thomas L. Floyd
  • Patent number: 11930756
    Abstract: A method of plant genetics and plant breeding including wheat plants carrying restorer of fertility genes specific to T. timopheevii CMS cytoplasm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: LIMAGRAIN EUROPE
    Inventors: Pierrick Varenne, Jordi Comadran, Sébastien Specel, Mickaël Throude, Jérémy Derory
  • Patent number: 11930768
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01091702. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01091702. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01091702 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01091702 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Roger L Lussenden
  • Patent number: 11930770
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01091765. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01091765. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01091765 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01091765 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: James Behm, Thomas L. Floyd
  • Patent number: 11930769
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01091763. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01091763. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01091763 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01091763 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Leandro Mozzoni
  • Patent number: 11926838
    Abstract: The invention provides specific transgenic cotton plants, plant material and seeds, characterized in that these products harbor a specific herbicide tolerance transformation event at a specific location in the cotton genome. Tools are also provided which allow rapid and unequivocal identification of the event in biological samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: BASF AGRICULTURAL SOLUTIONS SEED US LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Jansens, Rozemarijn Dreesen, Wendy Aartsen, Jonas Vanhaelen, Hal Moser, Ginger Light
  • Patent number: 11917972
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01091777. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01091777. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01091777 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01091777 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Craig K. Moots
  • Patent number: 11920140
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods and systems for altering the genome of an organelle. In some embodiments, the method comprises introducing into an organelle a recombinant DNA construct comprising a first polynucleotide encoding at least one guide RNA and a second polynucleotide encoding a polynucleotide guided polypeptide; and growing a cell comprising the organelle under conditions in which the first polynucleotide and the second polynucleotide are each expressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NAPIGEN, INC.
    Inventors: Hajime Sakai, Byung-Chun Yoo, Emil Meyer Orozco, Jr., Ganesh Kishore, Narendra Singh Yadav
  • Patent number: 11895960
    Abstract: The present invention relates to non-transgenic and transgenic plants, preferably crop plants, comprising a mutation causing an alteration of the amino acid sequence in the CATD domain of the centromere histone H3 (CENH3), preferably within the loop1 or the ?2-helix of the CATD domain, which have the biological activity of a haploid inducer. Further, the present invention provides methods of generating the plants of the present invention and haploid and double haploid plants obtainable by crossing the plants of the present invention with wildtype plants as well as methods of facilitating cytoplasm exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Andreas Houben, Raheleh Karimi-Ashiyani, Takayoshi Ishii, Nils Stein, Jochen Kumlehm, Christof Bolduan, Frank Breuer, Monika Kloiber-Maitz, Markus Niessen, Milena Ouzunova, Britta Schulz, Silke Wieckhorst
  • Patent number: 11889811
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides tobacco inbred plants TND950 (phph) SRC, Narrow Leaf Madole (phph) SRC, Narrow Leaf Madole SRC, CMS TND950 SRC, CMS Narrow Leaf Madole SRC, and CMS KY171 SRC, and hybrids PD7305 SRC, PD7309 SRC, PD7312 SRC, PD7318 SRC, and PD7319 SRC. The present disclosure also provides parts of such plants and products made from those parts. The present disclosure also includes progeny of the provided plants including hybrids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Marcos Fernando de Godoy Lusso, Andrew Carl Adams
  • Patent number: 11871721
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a white-fruited, perfect-flowered, bunch grapevine having white fruit due to a non-VvMybA1 genetic mutation. Methods for producing the grapevine can utilize or include, for example, breeding, mutagenesis, recombinant DNA, and/or gene editing. The grapevine can be used to obtain achieve new grape colors and/or new combinations of color and flavor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: E&J Gallo Winery
    Inventor: Peter Samuel Melugin Cousins
  • Patent number: 11864500
    Abstract: The present invention includes broccoli plants with curds having detached florets and methods for obtaining such broccoli plants. The present invention also provides reagents that can be used in methods for obtaining such broccoli plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventors: Franciscus van den Bosch, Meinardus Petrus Boon
  • Patent number: 11866716
    Abstract: The present invention generally provides methods to generate plants with high frequency of spontaneous haploid genome doubling for use in doubled haploid production. The invention relates to the BUBR1 nucleic acid and protein sequences identified, which are associated with spontaneous haploid genome doubling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Lubberstedt, Ursula Karoline Frei
  • Patent number: 11856918
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01084034. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01084034. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01084034 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01084034 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventor: Christiana E. Wiebbecke
  • Patent number: 11845943
    Abstract: Provided herein are materials and in planta methods for using haploid inducer lines containing a targeted endonuclease to generate transgenic or non-transgenic plants with targeted mutations and/or genomic modifications. Also provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Benjamin W. Campbell, Junqi Liu, Robert M. Stupar
  • Patent number: 11845942
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, and systems for targeted plant genome editing. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides recombinant self-replicating RNAs derived from a plant virus vector, such as those derived from Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV). In some embodiments, the recombinant self-replicating RNAs direct the expression of both a CRISPR endonuclease and a guide RNA capable of directing sequence-specific binding of the CRISPR endonuclease to a target DNA in the genome of plant cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Vilmorin & Cie
    Inventor: John Lindbo
  • Patent number: 11845946
    Abstract: This disclosure provides tobacco plants that exhibit altered photosynthesis as well as methods of making and using such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Yanxin Shen, Dongmei Xu
  • Patent number: 11832577
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 08070926 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 08070926, to the plants of soybean cultivar 08070926, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 08070926, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 08070926. 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 08070926. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 08070926, 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 08070926 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: M.S. TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason
  • Patent number: 11825805
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01083845. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01083845. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01083845 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01083845 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventor: Heinrich S. Wohleser