Patents by Inventor Chibwe Chungu

Chibwe Chungu 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).

  • Patent number: 11641825
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated 4KKMR0371 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 4KKMR0371 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 4KKMR0371 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety 4KKMR0371 or a locus conversion of 4KKMR0371 with another maize variety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas Conrad Mack, Jeffrey S. Posch
  • Publication number: 20220295718
    Abstract: The subject invention provides low fiber, yellow-seeded canola, and related canola meal and animal feed. Oil produced from this seed has at least 68% oleic acid and no more than 3% linolenic acid, relative to the total fatty acids in the oil. Specific canola lines exhibiting these characteristics are also provided. Canola seed offering the combined advantages of excellent oil together with high-quality meal has not heretofore been provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Chibwe CHUNGU, Thomas J. KUBIK, Gerhard RAKOW, John P. RANEY
  • Patent number: 10638706
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated 61729545. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety 61729545, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety 61729545 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety 61729545.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: AGRIGENETICS, INC.
    Inventors: Ken Mayberry, Chibwe Chungu
  • Publication number: 20200060135
    Abstract: The subject invention provides low fiber, yellow-seeded canola, and related canola meal and animal feed. Oil produced from this seed has at least 68% oleic acid and no more than 3% linolenic acid, relative to the total fatty acids in the oil. Specific canola lines exhibiting these characteristics are also provided. Canola seed offering the combined advantages of excellent oil together with high-quality meal has not heretofore been provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Chibwe CHUNGU, Thomas J. KUBIK, Gerhard RAKOW, John P. RANEY
  • Patent number: 10264747
    Abstract: An inbred corn line, designated 5KKXJ0210, the plants and seeds of the inbred corn line 5KKXJ0210, methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred corn line 5KKXJ0210 with itself or with another corn plant, and hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line 5KKXJ0210 with another corn line or plant and to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic corn plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line 5KKXJ0210, to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line 5KKXJ0210 and to the inbred corn lines derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Stuart Posch, Chibwe Chungu, Thomas C. Mack
  • Patent number: 10091961
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated 91566862. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety 91566862, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety 91566862 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety 91566862.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Jeffrey Stuart Posch, Thomas C. Mack
  • Publication number: 20150334976
    Abstract: The subject invention provides low fiber, yellow-seeded canola, and related canola meal and animal feed. Oil produced from this seed has at least 68% oleic acid and no more than 3% linolenic acid, relative to the total fatty acids in the oil. Specific canola lines exhibiting these characteristics are also provided. Canola seed offering the combined advantages of excellent oil together with high-quality meal has not heretofore been provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Chibwe CHUNGU, Thomas J. KUBIK, Gerhard RAKOW, John P. RANEY
  • Patent number: 9066483
    Abstract: The subject invention provides low fiber, yellow-seeded canola, and related canola meal and animal feed. Oil produced from this seed has at least 68% oleic acid and no more than 3% linolenic acid, relative to the total fatty acids in the oil. Specific canola lines exhibiting these characteristics are also provided. Canola seed offering the combined advantages of excellent oil together with high-quality meal has not heretofore been provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignees: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada as represented by the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Gerhard Rakow, Thomas J. Kubik, Barbara L. Raney
  • Patent number: 8901379
    Abstract: According to the invention, there are provided novel canola cultivars, seeds of canola cultivars, to the plants, or plant parts, of novel canola cultivars and to methods for producing canola plants produced by crossing the novel canola cultivars with themselves or another canola cultivar, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of the canola cultivars. The novel canola cultivar(s) include canola plants having a desired trait that includes an oleic acid value of about 70%, an ?-linolenic acid value of less than about 3%, and a yield greater than about 2100 kg/ha.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.
    Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
  • Publication number: 20140259232
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods for identifying maize plants that having decreased flowering time. The methods use molecular markers to identify and to select plants with decreased flowering time. Maize plants generated by the methods of the invention are also a feature of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Rajesh Perianayagam, Jan E. Backlund, Stipe Vujevic, Trisha Borowicz, Chibwe Chungu, David H. Meyer, Bruce A. Nagel, Othmar M. Frei, John P. Davies
  • Patent number: 8541656
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola, designated DN051465. Also included are seeds of canola DN051465, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola DN051465 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola DN051465 with itself or another canola genotype, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola DN051465.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Agrigenetics Inc.
    Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
  • Publication number: 20130133094
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola, designated DN051465. Also included are seeds of canola DN051465, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola DN051465 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola DN051465 with itself or another canola genotype, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola DN051465.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
  • Patent number: 8389811
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola cultivar, designated DN051607. Also included are seeds of canola cultivar DN051607, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola DN051607 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola DN051607 with itself or another canola cultivar, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola DN051607.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.
    Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
  • Patent number: 8378177
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola cultivar, designated DN051493. Also included are seeds of canola cultivar DN051493, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola DN051493 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola DN051493 with itself or another canola cultivar, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola DN051493.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC
    Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
  • Patent number: 8367896
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola cultivar, designated DN051535. Also included are seeds of canola cultivar DN051535, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola DN051535 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola DN051535 with itself or another canola cultivar, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola DN051535.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC
    Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
  • Patent number: 8324461
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola cultivar, designated DN051505. Also included are seeds of canola cultivar DN051505, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola DN051505 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola DN051505 with itself or another canola cultivar, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola DN051505.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.
    Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
  • Patent number: 8324460
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola cultivar, designated DN051692. Also included are seeds of canola cultivar DN051692, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola DN051692 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola DN051692 with itself or another canola cultivar, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola DN051692.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.
    Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
  • Publication number: 20110191889
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola cultivar, designated DN051607. Also included are seeds of canola cultivar DN051607, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola DN051607 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola DN051607 with itself or another canola cultivar, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola DN051607.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
  • Publication number: 20110191886
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola cultivar, designated DN051493. Also included are seeds of canola cultivar DN051493, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola DN051493 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola DN051493 with itself or another canola cultivar, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola DN051493.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
  • Publication number: 20110191884
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola cultivar, designated DN051535. Also included are seeds of canola cultivar DN051535, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola DN051535 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola DN051535 with itself or another canola cultivar, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola DN051535.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik