Patents Examined by Wayne Zhong
  • Patent number: 12781240
    Abstract: Pesticidal proteins exhibiting toxic activity against Coleopteran, Lepidopteran, Hemipteran, and Thysanopteran pest species are disclosed, and include, but are not limited to, TIC6280, TIC6281, TIC6282, TIC6283, TIC8808, TIC9480, TIC9257, TIC7106, TIC7017, TIC7107, TIC7108, TIC7109, TIC7110, TIC7111, TIC7589, TIC9258, and TIC9259. DNA constructs are provided which contain a recombinant nucleic acid sequence encoding the pesticidal proteins provided. Transgenic plants, plant cells, seed, and plant parts resistant to Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Hemipteran and Thysanopteran infestation are provided which contain recombinant nucleic acid sequences encoding the disclosed pesticidal proteins. Methods for detecting the presence of the recombinant nucleic acid sequences or the protein of the present invention in a biological sample, and methods of controlling Coleopteran, Lepidopteran, Hemipteran, and Thysanopteran species pests using the disclosed pesticidal proteins are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: David J. Bowen, Catherine A. Chay, Todd A. Ciche, Stanislaw Flasinski, Arlene R. Howe, Jason S. Milligan, James K. Roberts, Yong Yin
  • Patent number: 12765495
    Abstract: The present invention is directed in part to soybean variety CL1920832, CL1922439, CL1922500, CL1922511, CL1922568, CL1922578, CL1922596, CL1922616, CL1922650, CL1922757, and/or CL1922868 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to soybean variety CL1920832, CL1922439, CL1922500, CL1922511, CL1922568, CL1922578, CL1922596, CL1922616, CL1922650, CL1922757, and/or CL1922868 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CL1920832, CL1922439, CL1922500, CL1922511, CL1922568, CL1922578, CL1922596, CL1922616, CL1922650, CL1922757, and/or CL1922868, e.g., in a breeding program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
    Inventors: Jose Aponte-Rivera, Brian Scott Erdahl
  • Patent number: 12765496
    Abstract: The present invention is directed in part to soybean variety CL1920832, CL1922439, CL1922500, CL1922511, CL1922568, CL1922578, CL1922596, CL1922616, CL1922650, CL1922757, and/or CL1922868 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to soybean variety CL1920832, CL1922439, CL1922500, CL1922511, CL1922568, CL1922578, CL1922596, CL1922616, CL1922650, CL1922757, and/or CL1922868 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CL1920832, CL1922439, CL1922500, CL1922511, CL1922568, CL1922578, CL1922596, CL1922616, CL1922650, CL1922757, and/or CL1922868, e.g., in a breeding program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
    Inventors: Jose Aponte-Rivera, Brian Scott Erdahl
  • Patent number: 12758518
    Abstract: A recombinant camelina plant or cell comprising one or more polynucleotides encoding a A6-desaturase, a A6-elongase and a A5-desaturase operably linked with one or more regulatory sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2026
    Assignee: Rothamsted Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Johnathan Napier, Olga Sayanova, Noemi Ruiz Lopez, Richard Haslam
  • Patent number: 12751392
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a novel lettuce variety. The present disclosure provides a seed, plant, and tissue culture of a lettuce plant identified by Accession No. FERM BP-22478 and a method for producing a lettuce plant produced by crossing the lettuce plant identified by Accession No. FERM BP-22478 with any other lettuce plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2026
    Assignee: TAKII & Company Limited
    Inventors: Ryohei Hirose, Satoru Ishida
  • Patent number: 12745740
    Abstract: The invention provides seeds and plants of pepper hybrid DRPB3992 and pepper line SBO-XZ20-0212. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid DRPB3992 and pepper line SBO-XZ20-0212 and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a pepper 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 pepper hybrid DRPB3992 and pepper line SBO-XZ20-0212 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: Christof Stoll
  • Patent number: 12745737
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 38440022 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 38440022, to the plants of soybean cultivar 38440022, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 38440022, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 38440022. 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 38440022. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 38440022, 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 38440022 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: MERTEC, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Joseph Arthur Grams
  • Patent number: 12733641
    Abstract: An inhibitor of cell death induced by transient protein expression in a plant, the inhibitor including, as an active ingredient, ascorbic acid or a derivative thereof, a salt thereof, or a solvate thereof, can advantageously inhibit cell death induced by transient protein expression in a plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2026
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA
    Inventors: Kenji Miura, Fuminori Tsuruta
  • Patent number: 12723251
    Abstract: T-DNA for expression of a target gene in a plant, wherein the T-DNA comprises a left and a right border element and at least one expression cassette comprising a promoter, operatively linked thereto a target gene, and downstream thereof a terminator, wherein the length of the T-DNA, measured from left to right border element and comprising the target gene, has a length of at least 30000 bp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignees: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH, Bioriginal Food & Science Corporation
    Inventors: Toralf Senger, Laurent Marty, Irene Kunze, Heiko Haertel, Steven Craig Bremmer, Steven D. Breazeale, Joerg Bauer, Patricia Vrinten, Sten Stymne, Jenny Lindberg Yilmaz, John A. McElver, Dietrich Rein, Carl Andre
  • Patent number: 12716071
    Abstract: The methods disclosed herein use a morphogenic gene or a repressor gene to provide a transgenic plant containing a single copy of a transgenic event wherein the morphogenic gene or the repressor gene does not integrate into the genome of the plant and the plant does not contain vector (plasmid) backbone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Ajith Anand, William James Gordon-Kamm, George J Hoerster, Keith S Lowe, Kevin E McBride
  • Patent number: 12709756
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel plants, seeds and compositions, as well as improvements to plant breeding and methods for creating modifications in plant genomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Yajie Niu, Randall William Shultz, Maria Margarita D. Unson, Michael Andreas Kock, John Patrick Casey, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12708092
    Abstract: The invention provides seeds and plants of pepper hybrid SVPB8161 and pepper line SBR-E720-1084. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SVPB8161 and pepper line SBR-E720-1084 and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a pepper 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 pepper hybrid SVPB8161 and pepper line SBR-E720-1084 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: William Mccarthy
  • Patent number: 12709757
    Abstract: Mammalian milk oligosaccharides (MMO) are produced in plants engineered to express recombinant MMO biosynthetic pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Patrick M. Shih, Collin Robert E. Barnum
  • Patent number: 12698483
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel method for detoxification of trichothecene contaminated material. More specifically the present invention pertains to a method for biotransformation of a trichothecene by contacting material contaminated with trichothecenes with an exogenous non-animal glutathione-S-transferase (GST) having substrate specificity for the epoxide ring of the trichothecene. The invention further relates to recombinant GSTs and transgenic plants and animals expressing said GSTs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: DSM Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Siller, Gerhard Adam, Maria Doppler, Rainer Schuhmacher, Karl Kugler, Klaus F.X. Mayer, Gerlinde Wiesenberger, Herbert Michlmayr, Wolfgang Schweiger, Manuel Hofer, Hermann Bürstmayr, Barbara Steiner
  • Patent number: 12690558
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 23130700 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 23130700, to the plants of soybean cultivar 23130700, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 23130700, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 23130700. 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 23130700. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 23130700, 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 23130700 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: M.S. Technologies, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason
  • Patent number: 12685286
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 25170726 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 25170726, to the plants of soybean cultivar 25170726, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 25170726, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 25170726. 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 25170726. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 25170726, 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 25170726 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: Mertec, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Joseph Arthur Grams
  • Patent number: 12685281
    Abstract: Inbred corn line, designated KW4MT1806, is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of inbred corn line KW4MT1806, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line KW4MT1806 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line KW4MT1806 with itself or another corn line. The disclosure also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line KW4MT1806 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The disclosure further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other corn lines derived from inbred corn line KW4MT1806.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Bojan Draskovic
  • Patent number: 12685278
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 42-BU1911 RZ. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 42-BU1911 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 42-BU1911 RZ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V.
    Inventors: Martijn Christiaan Olij, Willem van Vliet
  • Patent number: 12672626
    Abstract: New chickpea varieties designated ‘NC-001’. ‘NC-002’, and ‘NC-004’ are chickpea varieties exhibiting stability and uniformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: NuCicer, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Cook, Brendan Riely
  • Patent number: 12660777
    Abstract: A wheat variety designated 6PPSB76B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PPSB76B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PPSB76B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PPSB76B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PPSB76B are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PPSB76B and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Cristiano Lemes Da Silva