Patents Examined by Vinod Kumar
  • Patent number: 11818998
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 05370116 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 05370116, to the plants of soybean cultivar 05370116, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 05370116, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 05370116. 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 05370116. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 05370116, 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 05370116 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: M.S. TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason
  • Patent number: 11818994
    Abstract: The present invention relates to endophytes, in particular endophytes associated with plants of the Brachiaria-Urochloa species complex, plants infected with the endophytes, products produced by the endophytes, and related methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LTD
    Inventors: German Carlos Spangenberg, Kathryn Michaela Guthridge, Ross Mann, Timothy Ivor Sawbridge, Inoka Kumari Hettiarachchige, Piyumi Niroshini Ekanayake, Natasha Denise Brohier, Simone Jane Rochfort, Jacqueline Edwards
  • Patent number: 11814635
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating cold tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding cold tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased levels of cold tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased cold tolerance levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Cory Christensen, Jack Okamuro, Shing Kwok, Roger Pennell
  • Patent number: 11814636
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of improved plant size, vegetative growth, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass in plants challenged with saline conditions. The present invention further relates to the use of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides in making transgenic plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having plant size, vegetative growth, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass that are improved in saline conditions with respect to wild-type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Fasong Zhou, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Julissa Sosa
  • Patent number: 11807875
    Abstract: The invention relates to feruloyl-CoA:monolignol transferase enzymes and nucleic acids encoding the feruloyl-CoA:monolignol transferase enzymes. The enzymes and/or the nucleic acids enable incorporation of monolignol ferulates into the lignin of plants. The monolignol ferulates include, for example, p-coumaryl ferulate, coniferyl ferulate, and/or sinapyl ferulate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: John Ralph, Steven D. Karlen, Rebecca Anne Smith, Brian Fox, Emily Beebe, Craig Bingman
  • Patent number: 11807876
    Abstract: The invention is directed to p-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase enzymes, nucleic acids encoding p-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase enzymes, and inhibitory nucleic acids adapted to inhibit the expression and/or translation of p-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase RNA; expression cassettes, plant cells, and plants that have or encode such nucleic acids and enzymes; and methods of making and using such nucleic acids, enzymes, expression cassettes, cells, and plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: John Ralph, Steven D. Karlen, Rebecca Anne Smith, Brian Fox, Emily Beebe, Craig Bingman
  • Patent number: 11795470
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polygenic DNA construct consisting of three abiotic stress tolerance genes, separated by nucleic acids encoding FMDV 2A peptides under the control of a stress inducible promoter. The stable insertion of the construct into plants confers drought tolerance to the plants. The invention also provides for vectors, host cells, transgenic plants and transgenic seeds containing the construct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
    Inventors: Bronwyn Lynn Arendze-Bailey, Jennifer Ann Thomson, Kershini Iyer, Mohamed Suhail Rafudeen, Revel Iyer, Tamaryn Lorean Ellick
  • Patent number: 11795465
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new transcriptional promoters that are functional during meiosis. It thus provides new tools, methods and compositions for the expression of proteins during meiosis in a eukaryotic cell, and more particularly in a plant cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: MEIOGENIX, INTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT, UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE DE LYON
    Inventors: Giacomo Bastianelli, Alain Nicolas, Peter Rogowsky
  • Patent number: 11778971
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 08150118 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 08150118, to the plants of soybean cultivar 08150118, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 08150118, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 08150118. 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 08150118. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 08150118, 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 08150118 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: M.S. TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason
  • Patent number: 11771044
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of soybean variety LS1763306, LS1763244, LS1763241, LS1663505, LS1663030, ES1668064, ES1668001, ES1667964, ES1667827, ES1667778, ES1667716, ES1667642, ES1667539, ES1667513, AND/OR CL1561664 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety LS1763306, LS1763244, LS1763241, LS1663505, LS1663030, ES1668064, ES1668001, ES1667964, ES1667827, ES1667778, ES1667716, ES1667642, ES1667539, ES1667513, AND/OR CL1561664 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using LS1763306, LS1763244, LS1763241, LS1663505, LS1663030, ES1668064, ES1668001, ES1667964, ES1667827, ES1667778, ES1667716, ES1667642, ES1667539, ES1667513, AND/OR CL1561664 in a breeding program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
    Inventors: Clay Brady Cole, Brian Scott Erdahl, Karen Maureen Gallo
  • Patent number: 11771039
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 06210302 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 06210302, to the plants of soybean cultivar 06210302, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 06210302, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 06210302. 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 06210302. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 06210302, 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 06210302 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: M.S. TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason
  • Patent number: 11771728
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns increasing the tocopherol content of a plant relative to a control plant, comprising expressing in a plant at least one polynucleotide encoding a delta-12-desaturase, at least one polynucleotide encoding a delta-6-desaturase, at least one polynucleotide encoding a delta-6-elongase, and at least one polynucleotide encoding a delta-5-desaturase. The present invention also relates to methods for the manufacture of oil, fatty acid- or lipids-containing compositions, and to such oils and lipids as such.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventor: Carl Andre
  • Patent number: 11766045
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods and materials for modulating seed nutritional quality traits of seeds produced by a wheat, cotton, soybean, or maize plant, said plant having been heterologously disposed to, or grown from, a plant element treated with an endophyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Indigo Ag, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond Riley, Slavica Djonovic, Nancy Vosnidou, Vasileios Bitas
  • Patent number: 11766017
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 01430308 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 01430308, to the plants of soybean cultivar 01430308, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 01430308, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 01430308. 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 01430308. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 01430308, 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 01430308 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: M.S. TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason
  • Patent number: 11761014
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating cold tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding cold tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased levels of cold tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased cold tolerance levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Cory Christensen, Jack Okamuro, Shing Kwok, Roger Pennell
  • Patent number: 11739342
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants with increased tolerance to abiotic stress (e.g., high or low temperature, drought, flood).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Cory Christensen, Nestor Apuya, Kenneth A. Feldmann
  • Patent number: 11716949
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 04130507 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 04130507, to the plants of soybean cultivar 04130507, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 04130507, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 04130507. 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 04130507. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 04130507, 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 04130507 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: M.S. TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason
  • Patent number: 11716951
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 04130322 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 04130322, to the plants of soybean cultivar 04130322, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 04130322, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 04130322. 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 04130322. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 04130322, 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 04130322 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: M.S. TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason
  • Patent number: 11716953
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 02440012 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 02440012, to the plants of soybean cultivar 02440012, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 02440012, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 02440012. 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 02440012. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 02440012, 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 02440012 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: M.S. TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason
  • Patent number: 11716952
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 04233715 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 04233715, to the plants of soybean cultivar 04233715, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 04233715, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 04233715. 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 04233715. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 04233715, 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 04233715 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: M.S. TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason