Patents by Inventor David J. Peterson
David J. Peterson 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: 20240139516Abstract: A system includes memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory, the processing circuitry configured to: determine at least one of: a cross-electrical signal measurement at a first electrode on a first lead implanted within a tongue of the patient based on a stimulation signal between a second electrode on the first lead or a second lead implanted within the tongue of the patient and a third electrode, or a strain measurement of at least one of the first lead or the second lead. The processing circuitry is configured to determine movement of the tongue based on at least one of the cross-electrical signal measurement or the strain measurement, and generate information indicative of the movement of the tongue.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: James Britton Hissong, Robert T. Sandgren, Erik J. Peterson, Sean P. Skubitz, Adam J. Rivard, Thomas I. Miller, David J. Miller, Kristin N. Hageman, Avram Scheiner, Kanthaiah Koka, Leonid M. Litvak
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Publication number: 20240124923Abstract: A method of determining whether one or more forms of a nucleic acid analyte are present in a sample. The method includes dissolving an amplification reagent with a first solvent, where the amplification reagent contains oligonucleotides sufficient to amplify and detect a first region of a first form of the analyte, where the first solvent contains one or more oligonucleotides which, in combination with the oligonucleotides of the amplification reagent, are sufficient to amplify and detect a second region of a second form of the analyte, where the one or more oligonucleotides of the first solvent are insufficient to amplify and detect the first or second form of the analyte, and where the first and second regions each comprise a different nucleotide base sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Patrick L. PETERSON, Jennifer L. TIDD, Anne-Laure SHAPIRO, Ankur H. SHAH, James T. TUGGLE, David OPALSKY, Alberto A. LIO, Timothy J. SCHEER, Jason F. RHUBOTTOM, David Aaron BUSE
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Patent number: 11957083Abstract: Some embodiments provide an interface unit interfacing with an irrigation controller, comprising: a housing; a controller configured to instruct an interruption of a watering schedule executed by the irrigation controller, the interruption based on one or both of sensed temperature and sensed rainfall amount, and based on one or both of user entered temperature and rainfall threshold parameters; a switching device coupled with the controller, and configured to cause the interruption in response to signaling from the controller; and a user interface comprising: a plurality of user input devices configured to provide signaling to the controller based upon user's engagement, and configured to allow the user to define the temperature and rainfall threshold parameters; and a user display comprising a display screen; wherein the controller is configured to cause the display screen to display a plurality of pictorial representations that in combination convey whether irrigation is being interrupted.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Rain Bird CorporationInventors: David M. Redmond, Michael J. Tennyson, Randall A. Hern, Gerald E. Peterson, David G. Fern
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Publication number: 20240074586Abstract: A body support assembly includes a seat assembly and backrest assembly supported by a tilt control assembly. Methods of using and assembling the body support assembly are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Kurt R. Heidmann, Gordon J. Peterson, David Bodnar, James Ludwig, Nathan R. Brock, Mark Spoelhof
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Patent number: 11915257Abstract: Systems and methods for receiving product data for products featured in a media asset are described. In some embodiments, the system includes control circuitry that receives from a server data for a plurality of products featured in a media asset. The control circuitry generates for display a list including the plurality of products. The control circuitry determines whether a product in the list is associated with a coupon and/or a preferred vendor. The control circuitry visually distinguishes the product from other products in the list in response to determining that the product is associated with a coupon and/or a preferred vendor.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.Inventors: David J. Wheatley, Brian C. Peterson, Douglas J. Seyller, James Cornell, Vanessa Wickenkamp, William J. Korbecki
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Publication number: 20220251587Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for the improvement of double-strand-break-inducing agent activity in eukaryotic cells, through the usage of one or more morphogenic factors or developmental genes. The morphogenic factor may be provided to the same cell or to a different cell than that comprising or receiving the double-strand-break-inducing agent. The morphogenic factor may be provided to a cell as a polynucleotide composition on a recombinant vector, and may be placed on the vector outside of a T-DNA border. The morphogenic factor may be provided via an upregulation of an endogenous gene. The morphogenic factor, or the double-strand-break-inducing agent, may further comprise a cell penetrating peptide. The morphogenic factor may be co-introduced with a vector comprising RepA.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: STEPHEN LAWRENCE GASIOR, WILLIAM JAMES GORDON-KAMM, KEITH S LOWE, DAVID J PETERSON, SERGEI SVITASHEV, JOSHUA K YOUNG
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Patent number: 11332752Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for the improvement of double-strand-break-inducing agent activity in eukaryotic cells, through the usage of one or more morphogenic factors or developmental genes. The morphogenic factor may be provided to the same cell or to a different cell than that comprising or receiving the double-strand-break-inducing agent. The morphogenic factor may be provided to a cell as a polynucleotide composition on a recombinant vector, and may be placed on the vector outside of a T-DNA border. The morphogenic factor may be provided via an upregulation of an endogenous gene. The morphogenic factor, or the double-strand-break-inducing agent, may further comprise a cell penetrating peptide. The morphogenic factor may be co-introduced with a vector comprising RepA.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Stephen Lawrence Gasior, William James Gordon-Kamm, Keith S Lowe, David J Peterson, Sergei Svitashev, Joshua K Young
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Publication number: 20210010012Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for the improvement of double-strand-break-inducing agent activity in eukaryotic cells, through the usage of one or more morphogenic factors or developmental genes. The morphogenic factor may be provided to the same cell or to a different cell than that comprising or receiving the double-strand-break-inducing agent. The morphogenic factor may be provided to a cell as a polynucleotide composition on a recombinant vector, and may be placed on the vector outside of a T-DNA border. The morphogenic factor may be provided via an upregulation of an endogenous gene. The morphogenic factor, or the double-strand-break-inducing agent, may further comprise a cell penetrating peptide. The morphogenic factor may be co-introduced with a vector comprising RepA.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: STEPHEN LAWRENCE GASIOR, WILLIAM JAMES GORDON-KAMM, KEITH S LOWE, DAVID J PETERSON, SERGEI SVITASHEV, JOSHUA K YOUNG
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Publication number: 20200032281Abstract: A variety of methods and compostions are provided, including methods and compositions for targeted modification of a specific target site in a cell or organism, methods for integrating polynucleotides of interest, methods to assess promoter activity, directly select transformed organisms, minimize or eliminate expression resulting from random integration into the genome of an organism, such as a plant, remove polynucleotides of interest, combine multiple transfer cassettes, invert or excise a polynucleotide, silence a gene, and identify and/or characterize transcriptional regulating regions. The methods involve the introduction of a cell proliferation factor and a double-strand break-inducing enzyme into an organism.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: WILLIAM JAMES GORDON-KAMM, KEITH S. LOWE, DAVID J. PETERSON, CHRISTOPHER J. SCELONGE, GRACE M. ST CLAIR, BING-BING WANG
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Patent number: 10443064Abstract: A variety of methods and compositions are provided, including methods and compositions for targeted modification of a specific target site in a cell or organism, methods for integrating polynucleotides of interest, methods to assess promoter activity, directly select transformed organisms, minimize or eliminate expression resulting from random integration into the genome of an organism, such as a plant, remove polynucleotides of interest, combine multiple transfer cassettes, invert or excise a polynucleotide, silence a gene, and identify and/or characterize transcriptional regulating regions. The methods involve the introduction of a cell proliferation factor and a double-strand break-inducing enzyme into an organism.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: William J. Gordon-Kamm, Keith S. Lowe, David J. Peterson, Christopher J. Scelonge, Grace M. St. Clair, Bing-Bing Wang
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Publication number: 20180298396Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided for the targeted integration of a polynucleotide sequence of interest into the genome of a plant or plant cell. The methods and compositions employ recognition sites for endonucleases and endonucleases in combination with site-specific recombination sites/recombinases to provide an effective system for establishing target sites within the genome of a plant, plant cell or seed. Once such target sites are established, a variety of methods can be employed to further modify the target sites such that they contain a variety of polynucleotides of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventors: ANDREW MARK CIGAN, SAVERIO CARL FALCO, HUIRONG GAO, MICHAEL W. LASSNER, ZHONGSEN LI, ZHAN-BIN LIU, LESZEK A. LYZNIK, DAVID J. PETERSON, CHRISTOPHER JAY SCELONGE
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Publication number: 20180298397Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided for the targeted integration of a polynucleotide sequence of interest into the genome of a plant or plant cell. The methods and compositions employ recognition sites for endonucleases and endonucleases in combination with site-specific recombination sites/recombinases to provide an effective system for establishing target sites within the genome of a plant, plant cell or seed. Once such target sites are established, a variety of methods can be employed to further modify the target sites such that they contain a variety of polynucleotides of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventors: ANDREW MARK CIGAN, SAVERIO CARL FALCO, HUIRONG GAO, MICHAEL W. LASSNER, ZHONGSEN LI, ZHAN-BIN LIU, LESZEK A. LYZNIK, DAVID J. PETERSON, CHRISTOPHER JAY SCELONGE
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Publication number: 20180171346Abstract: A variety of methods and compositions are provided, including methods and compositions for targeted modification of a specific target site in a cell or organism, methods for integrating polynucleotides of interest, methods to assess promoter activity, directly select transformed organisms, minimize or eliminate expression resulting from random integration into the genome of an organism, such as a plant, remove polynucleotides of interest, combine multiple transfer cassettes, invert or excise a polynucleotide, silence a gene, and identify and/or characterize transcriptional regulating regions. The methods involve the introduction of a cell proliferation factor and a double-strand break-inducing enzyme into an organism.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2018Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: WILLIAM J. GORDON-KAMM, KEITH S. LOWE, DAVID J. PETERSON, CHRISTOPHER J. SCELONGE, GRACE M. ST. CLAIR, BING-BING WANG
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Patent number: 9951346Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided for the targeted integration of a polynucleotide sequence of interest into the genome of a plant or plant cell. The methods and compositions employ recognition sites for endonucleases and endonucleases in combination with site-specific recombination sites/recombinases to provide an effective system for establishing target sites within the genome of a plant, plant cell or seed. Once such target sites are established, a variety of methods can be employed to further modify the target sites such that they contain a variety of polynucleotides of interest.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2012Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignees: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Andrew Mark Cigan, Saverio Carl Falco, Huirong Gao, Michael W. Lassner, Zhongsen Li, Zhan-Bin Liu, Leszek A. Lyznik, David J. Peterson, Christopher Jay Scelonge
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Patent number: 9926571Abstract: A variety of methods and compostions are provided, including methods and compositions for targeted modification of a specific target site in a cell or organism, methods for integrating polynucleotides of interest, methods to assess promoter activity, directly select transformed organisms, minimize or eliminate expression resulting from random integration into the genome of an organism, such as a plant, remove polynucleotides of interest, combine multiple transfer cassettes, invert or excize a polynucleotide, silence a gene, and identify and/or characterize transcriptional regulating regions. The methods involve the introduction of a cell proliferation factor and a double-strand break-inducing enzyme into an organism.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: William Gordon-Kamm, Keith Lowe, David J Peterson, Christopher Scelonge, Grace M St Clair, Bing-Bing Wang
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Patent number: 9222098Abstract: Compositions for the targeted integration of nucleotide sequences into a plant are provided. Plants and plant cells having multiple transfer cassettes stacked at precise locations in the genome of a plant or plant cell are provided. In specific embodiments, the plant or plant cell comprises at least two transfer cassettes. The first transfer cassette comprises a first nucleotide sequence of interest flanked by a first and a second recombination site, wherein the first and the second recombination sites are non-identical. The second transfer cassette comprises a second nucleotide sequence of interest flanked by the second recombination site and a third recombination site, wherein the third recombination site is non-identical to the first and said second recombination site.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2003Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Inventors: Christopher L. Baszczynski, Benjamin A. Bowen, David J. Peterson, Laura Tagliani
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Publication number: 20140338070Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided for the targeted integration of a polynucleotide sequence of interest into the genome of a plant or plant cell. The methods and compositions employ recognition sites for endonucleases and endonucleases in combination with site-specific recombination sites/recombinases to provide an effective system for establishing target sites within the genome of a plant, plant cell or seed. Once such target sites are established, a variety of methods can be employed to further modify the target sites such that they contain a variety of polynucleotides of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicants: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Andrew Mark Cigan, Saverio Carl Falco, Huirong Gao, Michael W. Lassner, Zhongsen Li, Zhan-Bin Liu, Leszek A. Lyznik, David J. Peterson, Christopher Jay Scelonge
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Publication number: 20140237681Abstract: A variety of methods and compostions are provided, including methods and compositions for targeted modification of a specific target site in a cell or organism, methods for integrating polynucleotides of interest, methods to assess promoter activity, directly select transformed organisms, minimize or eliminate expression resulting from random integration into the genome of an organism, such as a plant, remove polynucleotides of interest, combine multiple transfer cassettes, invert or excise a polynucleotide, silence a gene, and identify and/or characterize transcriptional regulating regions. The methods involve the introduction of a cell proliferation factor and a double-strand break-inducing enzyme into an organism.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INCInventors: William Gordon-Kamm, Keith Lowe, David J. Peterson, Christopher Scelonge, Grace M. St Clair, Bing-Bing Wang
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Patent number: 8735158Abstract: Methods for the targeted integration of nucleotide sequences into a plant are provided. Transfer cassettes comprising nucleotide sequences of interest flanked by non-identical recombination sites are used to transform a plant comprising a target site. The target site contains at least a set of non-identical recombination sites corresponding to those on the transfer cassette. Exchange of the nucleotide sequences flanked by the recombination sites is effected by a recombinase.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2008Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventors: Christopher L. Baszczynski, Benjamin A. Bowen, David J. Peterson, Laura Tagliani
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Patent number: 8704041Abstract: A variety of methods and compostions are provided, including methods and compositions for targeted modification of a specific target site in a cell or organism, methods for integrating polynucleotides of interest, methods to assess promoter activity, directly select transformed organisms, minimize or eliminate expression resulting from random integration into the genome of an organism, such as a plant, remove polynucleotides of interest, combine multiple transfer cassettes, invert or excise a polynucleotide, silence a gene, and identify and/or characterize transcriptional regulating regions. The methods involve the introduction of a cell proliferation factor and a double-strand break-inducing enzyme into an organism.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2010Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Pioneer Hi Bred International IncInventors: William J. Gordon-Kamm, Keith S. Lowe, David J. Peterson, Christopher J. Scelonge, Grace M. St. Clair, Bing-Bing Wang