Patents by Inventor Cary Alan Weinberger

Cary Alan Weinberger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Methods, compositions, and systems for the identification of species-specific or developmental stage-specific insecticides
    Patent number: 8637237
    Abstract: Ecdysteroid action in Drosophila melanogaster and other insects is mediated by the dimerization of two nuclear receptors, the ecdysone receptor (EcR) and Ultraspiracle (USP), which regulate the transcription of target genes. Disclosed are nucleic acid constructs to identify insecticides having the ability to modify insect development and growth in a developmental stage-specific and/or species-specific manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Inventors: Vincent C. Henrich, Cary Alan Weinberger
  • Compounds That Act To Modulate Insect Growth And Methods And Systems For Identifying Such Compounds
    Publication number: 20110207707
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for screening for compounds that act to modulate insect growth. Bioassays including cell culture and/or transgenic insects engineered with various components of the ecdysoid receptor (EcR) and/or the farsenoid-X receptor (RXR) systems to identify compounds that act as insecticides and/or hormone receptor activators are described. Also described are compounds, and compositions, identified as being putative insecticides based upon their ability to activate EcR and/or FXR mediated transcription.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Vincent C. Henrich, Cary Alan Weinberger
  • Compounds that act to modulate insect growth and methods and systems for identifying such compounds
    Patent number: 7790377
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for screening for compounds that act to modulate insect growth. Bioassays including cell culture and/or transgenic insects engineered with various components of the ecdysoid receptor (EcR) and/or the farsenoid-X receptor (RXR) systems to identify compounds that act as insecticides and/or hormone receptor activators are described. Also described are compounds, and compositions, identified as being putative insecticides based upon their ability to activate EcR and/or FXR mediated transcription.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Inventors: Vincent C. Henrich, Cary Alan Weinberger
  • Receptor infection assay
    Patent number: 6027875
    Abstract: The present invention relates to improvements in a bioassay useful for identifying materials that function as ligands for a hormone or hormone-like receptor protein measured by means of induction of reporter DNA driven by a promoter of a hormone response element. The improvement comprises producing a cell operatively harboring DNA encoding reporter gene and receptor gene by coinfection of a mammalian cell with a viral expression vector. The expedient of this invention permits commercial realization and exploitation of the bioassay system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
    Inventor: Cary Alan Weinberger