Patents by Inventor Frank Miskiel

Frank Miskiel 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).

  • Gellan gum seed coating
    Patent number: 6453608
    Abstract: A seed coating comprising gellan gum is disclosed along with a process which comprises admixing gellan gum and water under effective shear conditions to prepare an aqueous gellan gum coating composition thereof whereby the aqueous gellan gum coating composition may be applied in an adherent fashion to a seed to form a gellan gum coated seed. A gellan gum seed coating composition may indicate one or more bioactive(s) and optionally one or more colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Monsanto Company
    Inventors: John Flanagan, Helen Anderson, Frank Miskiel, You-Lung Chen
  • Acidic cleaning compositions containing low acetate xanthan gum
    Patent number: 6083890
    Abstract: An improved acidic cleaning composition comprising a low acetate xanthan gum as a rheological control agent exhibits greater, longer lasting stability and shelf-life than acidic cleaning compositions with xanthan gum have exhibited in the past.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Monsanto Company
    Inventors: Frank Miskiel, Yogesh Solanki