Patents by Inventor Edward L. Braun

Edward L. Braun 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: 7592506
    Abstract: Methods for altering levels in plants of one or more phenolic compounds that are intermediates or final products of the plant phenylpropanoid pathway are provided. One method comprises transforming a plant cell with an expression construct comprising a nucleic acid which encodes a transactivator protein comprising the myb domain of the maize “ZmMyb-IF35” protein and an activation domain. Another method comprises transforming a plant cell with an expression construct comprising a transgene which encodes an antisense ZmMyb-IF35 RNA. The present invention also relates to expression constructs and vectors used in the present methods, transformed plant cells and transgenic plants prepared according to the present methods, and the seeds of such transgenic plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: The Ohio State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Erich Grotewold, Anusha P Dia, Edward L. Braun
  • Publication number: 20080235829
    Abstract: Methods for altering levels in plants of one or more phenolic compounds that are intermediates or final products of the plant phenylpropanoid pathway are provided. One method comprises transforming a plant cell with an expression construct comprising a nucleic acid which encodes a transactivator protein comprising the myb domain of the maize “ZmMyb-IF35” protein and an activation domain. Another method comprises transforming a plant cell with an expression construct comprising a transgene which encodes an antisense ZmMyb-IF35 RNA. The present invention also relates to expression constructs and vectors used in the present methods, transformed plant cells and transgenic plants prepared according to the present methods, and the seeds of such transgenic plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: The Ohio State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Erich Grotewold, Anusha P. Dias, Edward L. Braun
  • Patent number: 7154023
    Abstract: Methods for altering levels in plants of one or more phenolic compounds that are intermediates or final products of the plant phenylpropanoid pathway are provided. One method comprises transforming a plant cell with an expression construct comprising a nucleic acid which encodes a transactivator protein comprising the myb domain of the maize “ZmMyb-IF35” protein and an activation domain. Another method comprises transforming a plant cell with an expression construct comprising a transgene which encodes an antisense ZmMyb-IF35 RNA. The present invention also relates to expression constructs and vectors used in the present methods. transformed plant cells and transgenic plants prepared according to the present methods, and the seeds of such transgenic plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: The Ohio State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Erich Grotewold, Anusha P. Dias, Edward L. Braun
  • Publication number: 20030150011
    Abstract: Methods for altering levels in plants of one or more phenolic compounds that are intermediates or final products of the plant phenylpropanoid pathway are provided. One method comprises transforming a plant cell with an expression construct comprising a nucleic acid which encodes a transactivator protein comprising the myb domain of the maize “ZmMyb-IF35” protein and an activation domain. Another method comprises transforming a plant cell with an expression construct comprising a transgene which encodes an antisense ZmMyb-IF35 RNA. The present invention also relates to expression constructs and vectors used in the present methods. transformed plant cells and transgenic plants prepared according to the present methods, and the seeds of such transgenic plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Inventors: Erich Grotewold, Anusha P. Dias, Edward L. Braun
  • Patent number: 4321672
    Abstract: Methods and systems for effecting a variety of electronic funds transfer transactions are based upon the use of unit records containing preprinted non-machine readable data, preprinted machine readable data, and manually entered data, and conversion of such records from negotiable instruments to documentary evidence of the satisfactory completion of the transaction. By first automatically reading the encoded data on the unit record and incorporating transaction data and security information in messages transmitted from a terminal, a financial institution can verify the validity of the transaction, effect the transaction and return an authorization message containing both reference and transaction information for imprinting on the unit record. The record then evidences the satisfactory completion of the transaction, and no further document generation or handling are needed at the merchant and financial institutions involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1982
    Inventors: Edward L. Braun, Eric A. Thomson