Patents by Inventor D. Nicholas Breitbach

D. Nicholas Breitbach 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).

  • Reduced pigment gene of carrot and its use
    Patent number: 6437222
    Abstract: This invention relates to a carrot plant having Vitamin E biosynthesis, a recessive gene for reduced pigment designated rp, a carrot inbred line with Vitamin E biosynthesis. The carrot plant contains at least 0.01 mg &agr;-tocopherol per 100 grams of fresh weight of the carrot root. The present invention also relates to a method for producing F1 hybrid carrot root. The method includes crossing a first parent carrot plant with a second parent carrot plant and harvesting the resultant F1 hybrid carrot root.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Irwin L. Goldman, D. Nicholas Breitbach
  • High Pigment Beet
    Patent number: 6353156
    Abstract: Novel high pigment beet populations and varieties and methods to produce are disclosed. The invention relates to a beet seed, a beet plant, a beet population, a beet variety, a beet hybrid and to a method of producing beets having a high level of total betalain pigments in the root.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Warren H. Gabelman, Irwin L. Goldman, D. Nicholas Breitbach