Patents by Inventor Clifford George
Clifford George 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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Publication number: 20230296183Abstract: A vacuum system non-return valve includes a baffle for extending across a flow path in the vacuum system and a valve member. The baffle has an aperture, a perimeter of the aperture has a valve seat. The valve member has a curved sealing surface configured to mate with the valve seat. The valve member and aperture are configured such that the valve member obscures the aperture and seals with the valve seat to impede a flow of fluid in a closed position and is displaceable in use to move away from the valve seat and allow a fluid flow in an open position; at least a portion of the surface of the baffle surrounding the aperture slopes towards the inlet end of the valve such that the aperture is smaller at the inlet end than it is at the outlet end.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Cainan Long, Ian David Stones, Phillip North, Clifford George Burt, Robin Hockley, Konstantinos Karoulas
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Publication number: 20220290767Abstract: A vacuum system non-return valve has a baffle for extending across a flow path The baffle has an aperture, a perimeter of the aperture having a valve seat. The valve also has a valve member having a protrusion extending from a surface configured to mate with the valve seat, the protrusion extending through the aperture; wherein the protrusion includes a retaining portion extending outwardly from the protrusion and configured such that the retaining portion cannot pass through the aperture. The valve member and aperture are configured such that the valve member obscures the aperture and seals with the valve seat to impede a flow of fluid from an outlet end to an inlet end in a closed position and is displaceable in use to move away from the valve seat and allow a fluid flow from the inlet end to the outlet end in an open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: David Alan Turrell, Phillip North, Neil Turner, Michael Henry North, Clifford George Burt, Sivabalan Kailasam, Cainan Long, Ian David Stones
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Publication number: 20220048169Abstract: A removal tool for a screw-on canister filter comprising a plurality of a tooth and side apertures. The tooth comprises of a chisel edge, bevel surface, and receding surface. The chisel edge of each tooth has an interference fit to the filter and it located on the center of a filter scallop. The side apertures allow the metal canister of the filter to contort and grant access to the filter bottom.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2020Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Nicholas Allen Sands, Clifford George Sands
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Patent number: 10869481Abstract: Plant propagation material expressing sugar beet cyst nematode resistance can be treated with a nematode-antagonistic biocontrol agent. Use of the nematode-antagonistic biocontrol agent can reduce the rate at which sugar beet cyst nematode (SBN) pests acquire tolerances to pesticidal activity of sugar beet plants expressing SBN resistance and pesticides, and can also increase yield and pesticidal activity.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2015Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Palle Pedersen, Clifford George Watrin
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Publication number: 20170079277Abstract: Combinations suitable for agricultural use can include (I) a nematode-antagonistic biocontrol agent and (II) one or more agents selected, independently of each other, from any one of (A) to (H): (A) at least one fungicide; (B) at least one insecticide; (C) at least one synthetic nematicide; (D) bacterium of the genus Bacillus; (E) Harpin; (F) Isoflavones; (G) Plant growth regulators; and/or (H) Plant activators.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Palle Pedersen, Clifford George Watrin, Michael Oostendorp, Andre Luiz-Freitas De Oliveira
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Publication number: 20170035054Abstract: Plant propagation material expressing sugar beet cyst nematode resistance can be treated with a nematode-antagonistic biocontrol agent. Use of the nematode-antagonistic biocontrol agent can reduce the rate at which sugar beet cyst nematode (SBN) pests acquire tolerances to pesticidal activity of sugar beet plants expressing SBN resistance and pesticides, and can also increase yield and pesticidal activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2015Publication date: February 9, 2017Applicant: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Palle Pedersen, Clifford George Watrin
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Patent number: 9420799Abstract: Plant propagation material expressing soybean cyst nematode resistance can be treated with a nematode-antagonistic biocontrol agent. Use of the nematode-antagonistic biocontrol agent can reduce the rate at which soybean cyst nematode (SCN) pests acquire tolerances to pesticidal activity of soybean plants expressing SCN resistance and pesticides, and can also increase yield and pesticidal activity.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Palle Pedersen, Clifford George Watrin, Michael Oostendorp, Andre Luiz Freitas de Oliveira
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Publication number: 20150366216Abstract: Combinations suitable for agricultural use can include (I) a nematode-antagonistic biocontrol agent and (II) one or more agents selected, independently of each other, from any one of (A) to (H): (A) at least one fungicide; (B) at least one insecticide; (C) at least one synthetic nematicide; (D) bacterium of the genus Bacillus; (E) Harpin; (F) Isoflavones; (G) Plant growth regulators; and/or (H) Plant activators.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Palle Pedersen, Clifford George Watrin, Michael Oostendorp, Andre Luiz-Freitas De Oliveira
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Patent number: 9149044Abstract: Combinations suitable for agricultural use can include (I) a nematode-antagonistic biocontrol agent and (II) one or more agents selected, independently of each other, from any one of (A) to (H): (A) at least one fungicide; (B) at least one insecticide; (C) at least one synthetic nematicide; (D) bacterium of the genus Bacillus; (E) Harpin; (F) Isoflavones; (G) Plant growth regulators; and/or (H) Plant activators.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2012Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Palle Pedersen, Clifford George Watrin, Michael Oostendorp, Andre Luiz-Freitas de Oliveira
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Publication number: 20140228212Abstract: Combinations suitable for agricultural use can include (I) a nematode-antagonistic biocontrol agent and (II) one or more agents selected, independently of each other, from any one of (A) to (H): (A) at least one fungicide; (B) at least one insecticide; (C) at least one synthetic nematicide; (D) bacterium of the genus Bacillus; (E) Harpin; (F) Isoflavones; (G) Plant growth regulators; and/or (H) Plant activators.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2012Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Palle Pedersen, Clifford George Watrin, Michael Oostendorp, Andre Luiz-Freitas de Oliveira
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Publication number: 20140171381Abstract: A method of controlling or preventing pathogenic damage or pest damage in a plant propagation material, a plant, parts of a plant and/or plant organs that grow at a later point in time, which comprises applying on the plant, part of the plant, or surroundings thereof, a pesticidal combination comprising, for example, at least three active ingredient components optionally together with one or more customary formulation auxiliaries, wherein component (I) is one or more of an—azole fungicide, component (II) is one or more of a phenylamide fungicide, component (III) is one or more of a strobilurin fungicide and/or one or more of a phenylpyrrole fungicide, in any desired sequence or simultaneously.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2014Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLCInventors: Ronald Zeun, Clifford George Watrin, Michael Oostendorp, Franz Brandi
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Patent number: 8691727Abstract: A method of controlling or preventing pathogenic damage or pest damage in a plant propagation material, a plant, parts of a plant and/or plant organs that grow at a later point in time, which comprises applying on the plant, part of the plant, or surroundings thereof, a pesticidal combination comprising, for example, at least three active ingredient components optionally together with one or more customary formulation auxiliaries, wherein component (I) is one or more of an -azole fungicide, component (II) is one or more of a phenylamide fungicide, component (III) is one or more of a strobilurin fungicide and/or one or more of a phenylpyrrole fungicide, in any desired sequence or simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2006Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLCInventors: Ronald Zeun, Clifford George Watrin, Michael Oostendorp, Franz Brandl
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Publication number: 20130340123Abstract: Plant propagation material expressing soybean cyst nematode resistance can be treated with a nematode-antagonistic biocontrol agent. Use of the nematode-antagonistic biocontrol agent can reduce the rate at which soybean cyst nematode (SCN) pests acquire tolerances to pesticidal activity of soybean plants expressing SCN resistance and pesticides, and can also increase yield and pesticidal activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2012Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Palle Pedersen, Clifford George Watrin, Michael Oostendorp, Andre Luiz Freitas de Oliveira
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Publication number: 20090137616Abstract: The present invention provides a method of controlling Pythium infection of plants comprising treating the plant or plant propagation material with a strobilurin, in particular, wherein the Pythium species is phenylamide insensitive. In addition, the present invention provides for use of a strobilurin for control of Pythium infection of a plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2005Publication date: May 28, 2009Applicant: Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.Inventors: Clifford George Watrin, Gilberto Olaya
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Publication number: 20050134672Abstract: A device and method for the alignment, in upto six degrees of freedom, of printheads in a printer is disclosed. The device has a support, wherein the printhead is secured to a substantially center location of the support. The device further has a fixed plate biased against the support by a plurality of first screws extending substantially in a Z direction, a plurality of second screws extending substantially in a Y direction, and a third screw extending substantially in an X direction. The fixed plate, and thus the print head, may be translated in each of the X, Y and Z directions and may be rotated about each of the X, Y, and Z axes by manipulation of the screws to achieve possible alignment in all six degrees of freedom.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2003Publication date: June 23, 2005Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Antonio Williams, Clifford George