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).
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Patent number: 12048282Abstract: A novel maize variety designated X90T897 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X90T897 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X90T897 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X90T897, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X90T897 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X90T897 and methods of using maize variety X90T897 are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: AGRIGENETICS, INCInventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas Conrad Mack, Jeffrey S Posch
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Patent number: 11641825Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas Conrad Mack, Jeffrey S. Posch
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Publication number: 20220295718Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Chibwe CHUNGU, Thomas J. KUBIK, Gerhard RAKOW, John P. RANEY
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Patent number: 10638706Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: AGRIGENETICS, INC.Inventors: Ken Mayberry, Chibwe Chungu
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Publication number: 20200060135Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2019Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Chibwe CHUNGU, Thomas J. KUBIK, Gerhard RAKOW, John P. RANEY
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Patent number: 10264747Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Stuart Posch, Chibwe Chungu, Thomas C. Mack
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Patent number: 10091961Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Jeffrey Stuart Posch, Thomas C. Mack
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Publication number: 20150334976Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Inventors: Chibwe CHUNGU, Thomas J. KUBIK, Gerhard RAKOW, John P. RANEY
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Patent number: 9066483Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 1, 2006Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignees: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada as represented by the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Dow AgroSciences LLCInventors: Chibwe Chungu, Gerhard Rakow, Thomas J. Kubik, Barbara L. Raney
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Patent number: 8901379Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 14, 2008Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
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Publication number: 20140259232Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLCInventors: Rajesh Perianayagam, Jan E. Backlund, Stipe Vujevic, Trisha Borowicz, Chibwe Chungu, David H. Meyer, Bruce A. Nagel, Othmar M. Frei, John P. Davies
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Patent number: 8541656Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 21, 2011Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Agrigenetics Inc.Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
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Publication number: 20130133094Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2011Publication date: May 23, 2013Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
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Patent number: 8389811Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 19, 2011Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
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Patent number: 8378177Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 19, 2011Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLCInventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
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Patent number: 8367896Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 19, 2011Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLCInventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
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Patent number: 8324460Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 19, 2011Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
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Patent number: 8324461Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 19, 2011Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
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Publication number: 20110191886Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLCInventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik
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Publication number: 20110191888Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLCInventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas J. Kubik